Have you ever imagined what the face of Jesus would look like?
Do you sometimes think, "I want to see my Savior's face"?
The Bible so detailed painted Zachaeus' repentance when he first encountered the Savior. He never used the phrase " I will" but he rather used "I have". He might have heard of the miracles of Jesus and then he desired to see him. He came prepared and had already done away with the things the master didn't like. (Luke 19:8-9)
He took the posture of someone who wanted a change, and he desired a relationship with God. Through this story, God is saying to us whenever we desire a change we do not come with the "I will" mindset but we should come having done away with the weights that would pull us back.
Whenever he would hear the wonders which Jesus did I can imagine him amazed and restlessly imagining the moment he would encounter Him. A man who had filled the empty voids of thousands and he too wanted to behold the face of this famous man. He was ready to go up the mountains and down below any hill just to see him. In his mind he would just be saying "I just want to see him, just to see him".
To this moments we could see the reality of Gods word which admonishes us to "looking up to Jesus the author and the finisher of our faith"
When we look at Jesus, we do not just see body parts but we would no longer be ashamed. And so whatever reproach being a tax collector came with he sees Jesus and is transformed and renewed by him
And when Jesus came to the tree he looked up and called out to him to come down
Luke 19:5 (AMP) And when Jesus reached the place, He looked up and said to him, Zacchaeus, hurry and come down; for I must stay at your house today.
Zacchaeus had to desperately seek Jesus out and the Lord made a stop at his home.
So many times, we think we have seen Jesus, but we just look at him, Jesus desires that we see him. It gets so difficult to fix our focus on Jesus when life storms keep smashing on our boats. In these moments, in our low and high moments Christ wants us to see him, to cast our gaze at him.
When we look deeply, we see him and in those moments his lights glow through us.
Stay Revived!
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