Archive for January 29th, 2009
Amazing!
As I poured through the Gospels (Matthew, Mark, Luke & John) looking at how Jesus demonstrated how to “love your neighbor as yourself” I was blown away. In three years or so, walking on foot, with no multimedia, no press agent or campaign director, the number and wide variety of people touched is simply amazing. And to see how he validated these people personally — not treating them as projects or notches on his successful ministry belt. He touched them. He asked them questions. He listened to their words and he noticed the cues in their circumstances to personally serve them and attend to their obvious and their deeper needs.
As the linked video suggests, Jesus is amazing! (Click on the text link or the image below to preview this video.)
So why don’t you take some time and simply list the people Jesus touched in the following places. I think you will be amazed, too!
- The key people that Jesus ministered to in John chapters 1-13
- The people Jesus served in Matthew 8-10
- The kinds of people Jesus dealt with in Mark 3
- The different folks Jesus blessed in Luke 7
Now don’t you think it’s amazing that he touched so many lives personally? And if we are to be like him, aren’t we going to have to be more aware of those around us that need to be touched?