“Blessed is the king who comes in the name of the Lord!”
“Peace in heaven and glory in the highest!”
Luke 19:38
I was quite shocked at a recent high school reunion when I didn’t recognize many of my high school classmates. Oh, how those last 20 years had changed us all! Some were heavier, some were thinner. Some of the men were now bald; some of the women had cut their long hair from the old days. But never in all the confusion of trying to recognize these dear friends from my past did I refuse to believe someone was who they said they were. I never thought of calling someone out saying “No, you can’t be so and so because you don’t look like what I remember.”
Jesus, however, had this problem when He came to earth as a man. In spite of all the Old Testament prophesies about His coming, He didn’t come in the form the religious leaders of the day expected. Because He didn’t come as the earthly king they expected, they refused to worship Him. The Pharisees understood Jesus’ claims, but they refused to believe Jesus was who He said He was. They refused to recognize Jesus for who He was – God.
Even today, Jesus stands at the door and waits for us to believe by faith that He is God. He knocks at the doors of our hearts and waits for us to invite Him in. Have you invited Him into your heart? Or like the Pharisees, do you doubt that this could really be the Savior you have waited for and so you ignore Him?
It is up to us to accept Jesus for who He is and ask Him to come into our lives. When we take that simple step, He cleans us up from the inside out and makes us new.
I was quite shocked at a recent high school reunion when I didn’t recognize many of my high school classmates. Oh, how those last 20 years had changed us all! Some were heavier, some were thinner. Some of the men were now bald; some of the women had cut their long hair from the old days. But never in all the confusion of trying to recognize these dear friends from my past did I refuse to believe someone was who they said they were. I never thought of calling someone out saying “No, you can’t be so and so because you don’t look like what I remember.”
