Are you Jesus?

The other day I was reminded of a story of 3 men who had been away from home for an extended period of time and were most anxious to get back.  As they hurriedly walked through the city on the way to the airport they passed many vendors and sidewalk shops, but they were focused on their destination ... home!  In their hurry and in an effort to get through all the people they ran right through a sidewalk vendor selling apples.  They upset the apple cart sending apples flying every which way, but on they went to catch their plane.  As they got to the door of the airplane one of the three men sent the others on to catch the plane and asked them to tell his wife he would be on the next flight.  Much to the frustration of his travel partners, the one man turned back to go help right the apple cart.  He just couldn't get it out of his mind.  As he neared the location where they had overturned the cart, he saw a young woman kneeling on the sidewalk - tears streaming down her face as she felt around for the apples the passersby were kicking and stepping on as they tried to avoid her.  You see - she was blind and the apple cart was her only source of income.  As the young man knelt you could see the fear on her face, but he assured her he was there to help not to steal the fruit.  He explained he was one of the ones who had ran over her cart in the first place.  He apologized as he gathered the fruit and helped her right the cart and get the display put back together.   Then he pulled out his wallet and gave her $50 to cover the damages to the cart and fruit as he apologized yet again.  She accepted his help and thanked him but stood there in awe as he turned to walk away explaining he now had to go change his flight so he could get home to his family.  As he walked away the young woman cried out, "excuse me, sir..."  He stopped and replied, "yes?"  "Are you - are you Jesus?" the young woman asked.  "You must be Jesus."

You see, this young woman was accustomed to people scorning her, taking advantage of her and never offering to help, but she was not used to having someone go out of their way to right a wrong.  She automatically saw him as Jesus.   How many times have you been mistaken for Jesus?  I hate to admit that I can only think of a few times in my lifetime that someone has actually said I was acting just like Jesus.

I don't know about you, but one of my goals for this year is to be mistaken for Jesus on a regular basis!  Think about it - how can we be Jesus to the people we come in contact with today?

Love and blessings to you all on this and every day!