EHAL Magazine May 2019

Everything Horses and Livestock Magazine ®

CMSA RUNDOWN

The 1st How the world sees you. The 2nd How you see yourself. The 3rd How Jesus sees you.

In Luke Chapter 19 we read of the meeting between Jesus and a man named Zacchaeus. We see in verse 7 that the world saw him as a sinner. He was a chief tax collector and had become wealthy because of that position. The people saw him as a person who cheated others to gain his wealth. People will judge us by the values that guides their lives and not by who we really are. They will also judge us by the opinions of others and their own insecurities and fears.

The second person in the tree is how Zacchaeus saw himself to be. He sought to see Jesus to find out who He was and because of that he climbed the tree. He was short in stature and knew the crowd didn’t respect him enough to let him to the front. He felt that he didn’t have a right to ask Jesus to dine with him or even meet him. We may see ourselves as not worthy to ask Christ to dine with us because of the mistakes we have made or the decisions we’ve chosen in life. The third man in the tree is how Jesus saw Zacchaeus and that’s what really matters. Jesus saw him as a child of Abraham. Someone that was lost. A man that was seeking Him. Jesus first encounter with one of the disciples was similar to this. In John 1:48 Nathanael said to Him, “How do You know me?” Jesus answered and said to him, “Before Phillip called you, when you were under the fig tree, I saw you.” He saw Zacchaeus as someone He wanted to spend time with. He saw the woman at the well as someone that was thirsty for the water of life. Jesus saw the five thousand that were fed by a miracle as those that needed a shepherd. Christ saw the blind beggar as one that needed his sight. He saw the leper as a man that wanted to be healed. Jesus even saw

LUKE 19 : 5-6 NKJV… AND WHEN JESUS CAME TO THE PLACE , HE LOOKED UP AND SAW HIM, AND SA ID TO HIM, “ZACCHAEUS , MAKE HASTE AND COME DOWN, FOR TODAY I MUST STAY AT YOUR HOUSE” . SO HE MADE HASTE AND CAME DOWN, AND RECE IVED HIM JOYFULLY.

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