Many of us find Jesus in all the typical places ... The Bible, the Church, the worship and often in the beauty of His world ... yet we miss the compassionate Jesus ... by overlooking Him, and even avoiding Him as He walks disguised as poor and needy in the dark of poverty.
The way I read Matthew 25:35 It isn't so much what we, His people did, that condemns us; it’s what we didn't do that actually condemns us. What we didn't do to Jesus incognito.
Hungry, thirsty, sick ...
Do the physically needy trump the spiritually needy, or are they actually to be one in the same. There is a lesson here.
If we look in the right places among the wrong ... we will discover a different Jesus. A Jesus we would never expect, In a place we would never expect. In a form that would surprise us.
"When did we see you?"
We can find Jesus as a poor hungry child.
If we look close we can find Jesus as a blind and crippled boy.
Open the prison and we find Jesus as a convict, locked in his cell.
Look closely at that feeble bedfast woman in an institution, is she actually ... Jesus?
In the understaffed hospital He’s laying on a bed hooked to IV's and oxygen.
Would you see Jesus in that drunk laying in his vomit, sleeping it off in the alley?
Or Jesus, as the old woman slowly walking down the road.
Unfortunately most of us Christians seem to be living and working ... where Jesus isn't. Why?
