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Musing from a contemplative mind....
So you want honesty?
This weekend I was in Boston with a group my friends. At one point we stopped to eat at McDonalds where we met a man named Vincent. Vincent was another homeless man who "just wanted a quarter." If you were an innocent bystander you would have seen that he came up to number of people whom he tried to bum money off,until he met me.
Vincent clearly had a need, one I did not meet, and that is to experience the unconditional acceptance and love that only Christ gives. What I did was make a cell phone call and give up a meal. For a while I was alone after this encounter as we were walking to the "T" thinking "so what?" He now has reservations for a bed at a homeless shelter and he is feeling a little less hungry than he was before. Outsiders and friends look at what I did as a courageous act, but they wouldn't have been quite as impressed if they could listen to my thoughts.
When he approached, his sight and his inquiry disgusted me and I thought, why don't you just get a job? I thought about how good it was that I was even giving him the time of day and how much better I was than so many other people who completely ignored him. I had to wrestle with that for a moment and then I felt like God asked me to act. It was my intention to "just be nice." But my nice was just for show, you know. But it changed, you can call a change of mind, but I would call it conviction. Convicted that verified my heart and my actions were not a match. When I acted on his immediate need my heart became a little warmer, by the time I had finished speaking with him, my heart had complete defrosted.
So many people want to have a face-to-face encounter with Jesus, they say, I want to see his face. You want that? DO YOU REALLY??? There He is, He is a poor black man who is begging for a quarter, looking for a bed, dying for a friend.
Do you still want Jesus?
I didn't think so...
...neither did I.
Vincent clearly had a need, one I did not meet, and that is to experience the unconditional acceptance and love that only Christ gives. What I did was make a cell phone call and give up a meal. For a while I was alone after this encounter as we were walking to the "T" thinking "so what?" He now has reservations for a bed at a homeless shelter and he is feeling a little less hungry than he was before. Outsiders and friends look at what I did as a courageous act, but they wouldn't have been quite as impressed if they could listen to my thoughts.
When he approached, his sight and his inquiry disgusted me and I thought, why don't you just get a job? I thought about how good it was that I was even giving him the time of day and how much better I was than so many other people who completely ignored him. I had to wrestle with that for a moment and then I felt like God asked me to act. It was my intention to "just be nice." But my nice was just for show, you know. But it changed, you can call a change of mind, but I would call it conviction. Convicted that verified my heart and my actions were not a match. When I acted on his immediate need my heart became a little warmer, by the time I had finished speaking with him, my heart had complete defrosted.
So many people want to have a face-to-face encounter with Jesus, they say, I want to see his face. You want that? DO YOU REALLY??? There He is, He is a poor black man who is begging for a quarter, looking for a bed, dying for a friend.
Do you still want Jesus?
I didn't think so...
...neither did I.
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