In walking through life I have found Jesus is some very unusual places.
I have found Jesus in war destroyed orphanage homes in Africa where hungry and sick children are getting up at 5 am every morning crying out to God for relief.
I have found Jesus looking to and fro for someone to say “yes” to be His hands and feet to relieve their suffering.
I have found Jesus with the little girl being raped nightly by an abusive orphanage director. I have seen Jesus uncover evidence to those passing by wanting someone to get involved to protect this innocent child.
I have found Jesus with the widow on the streets of Africa who is prostituting her body to feed her children. I have found Jesus asking us to help her start a business and mentor her into a new way of life.
I have found Jesus laying beside the dying street woman, coaxing those walking by to extend mercy in her final days of life to be a human extension of Himself.
I have found Jesus with the man dying of Aids asking His people to be the friend this man never knew he could have in this lifetime.
I have found Jesus in the nursing home with the lonely man who has been abandoned by his own children w/ no hope to go on living. I have seen Jesus coax his people to visit and bestow value and love upon him.
I have found Jesus rejoicing with every life rescued and every life given hope.
I love this written by Mother Theresa:
When a poor person dies of hunger, it has not happened because God did not take care of him or her. It happened because neither you nor I wanted to give that person what he or she needed. We have refused to be instruments of love in the hands of God to give the poor a piece of bread, to offer them a dress with which to ward off the cold. It has happened because we did not recognize Christ when, once more he appeared under the guise of pain, identified with a man numb from the cold, dying of hunger, when he came in a lonely human being, in a lost child in search of a home.
Jesus says these words in Matthew 25: 25-46
For I was hungry, and you gave Me something to eat; I was thirsty, and you gave Me drink; I was a stranger and you invited me in; Naked, and you clothed me, I was sick and you visited me, I was in prison, and you came to me.
Then the righteous will answer Him, saying Lord when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you drink? And when did we see you a stranger, and invite you in, or naked and clothed you? and when did we see you sick, or in prison, and came to you?
And the King will answer and say to them, Truly I say to you to the extent that you did it to one of these brothers of mine, even to the least of them, you did it to me.
This is where I find Jesus!!!!
In each of your own lives, where are you finding Jesus?
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