What is it about being in the presence of Jesus that makes Zacchaeus to want give half his possessions to the poor and pay back anyone he has cheated? There is obviously more to the conversation than what Luke provides here, but I don't get the sense that Jesus ever asks Zacchaeus to this. The "ruler" from Mark 10 comes to Jesus and asks what he can do to inherit eternal life, but Zacchaeus is just trying to find out who Jesus was (v. 3). There is just something about Jesus that draws the unexpected people of his time to do some really amazing things. I'd like to think I would have been a Zacchaeus, someone who is just trying to find out what is going on and then making a drastic change in my life and following Jesus. Im probably more like the other people in the story, standing and questioning Jesus, but I want to become more like Zacchaeus…
Thursday, February 14, 2008
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