Luke 19:1-10
At that
time Jesus came to Jericho and intended to pass through the town. Now a man
there named Zacchaeus, who was a chief tax collector and also a wealthy man,
was seeking to see who Jesus was; but he could not see him because of the
crowd, for he was short in stature. So he ran ahead and climbed a sycamore tree
in order to see Jesus, who was about to pass that way. When he reached the
place, Jesus looked up and said, “Zacchaeus, come down quickly, for today I must
stay at your house.” And he came down quickly and received him with joy. When they saw this, they began to grumble,
saying, “He has gone to stay at the
house of a sinner.” But Zacchaeus stood
there and said to the Lord, “Behold, half of my possessions, Lord, I shall give
to the poor, and if I have extorted anything from anyone I shall repay it four
times over.” And Jesus said to him, “Today salvation has come to this house because
this man too is a descendant of Abraham. For the Son of Man has come to seek and
to save what was lost.
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Reflection:
Who is
Zacchaeus? He is a chief tax collector, a bigtime extortionist and a bigtime
sinner too! It would seem that this sinful man would drown in his sinfulness
and be sinful for the rest of his life. But Jesus intervened in the life of
this sinful man so from being sinful he repented and became a renewed man.
God works
in mysterious ways in our lives, He always calls us sinners to become His faithful
followers. Zacchaeus is such kind of a
man, a sinner like you and me. His call to conversion may seem like his own
initiative but no it was not his own. It was Jesus who called him, it was Jesus
who spoke to his heart to tell him to return the money that he stole and leave
behind his sinful life.
Jesus
always calls us to conversion He uses many avenues to do it for us. There are
times that He bothers our conscience. There are times that He uses other people
for us to follow Him, let us be sensitive to this intervention of Jesus in our
lives.
Life is
never the same when we live it without Jesus, we may temporarily enjoy what
this world would offer us. But at the end of the day everything that this world
offers us is passing and temporary. Let us carefully discern this, let us
wake-up with our love affair with sin and materialism while we still have time
to walk away from it. – Marino J. Dasmarinas
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