Go and be Jesus to the world!

We complain that we can’t see God. We want to see him, we want to touch him, to hear his laughter. We want his arms of love to surround us when we cry, to hold us tight and whisper in our ear, “It’s gonna be okay.” We dream of the day when we will be with him, forever. But we want him here, to be with us now.

Is he? Perhaps he is here, with us now, but we aren’t seeing him. Then again, perhaps we aren’t looking. Maybe we are looking for him in the wrong place. Instead of searching for him in the pews, we should walk the streets of the ‘hood. Go, feed the homeless. Hold the baby of a fourteen-year-old girl. Gaze at children’s faces, children who deal drugs. Children who are in gangs. Fathers who beat their children. Girls who should be laughing and playing but are locked in the slavery of prostitution. Go to the hypocritical Christians who only toss money at the homeless. They think they help. But they don’t give the homeless what they need the most: love.

Do you love these precious people? They are just like you, people that Jesus came to die for. And when you look in the faces of these dirty, starving homeless as you scoop of bowls of soup, you are looking in the face of Jesus.

Do you even see these people? Before you can touch them, love them, help them, you must first find them. Jesus is crying gently as He turns to us "Sunday Christians" and asks, “Do you see me now? Can you hear me? I am crying; are you listening? You want to see me but you ignore me when I am right before you! These people…They are rejected, lonely, and broken. But I died for them, too! Go to them. Go to them and love them. Put them above yourself. Don’t just give them a couple wadded up dollars, give them love. And tell them this: That I loved them so much I died for them.” Go and be Jesus to the world!