"Are You Jesus?"

:) My friend posted this on facebook. I find this story absolutely beautiful. It really makes me think. 




A few years ago a group of salesmen went to a regional sales convention in Chicago. They had assured their wives that they would be home in plenty of time for Friday night's dinner. In their rush, with tickets and briefcases, one of these salesmen inadvertently kicked over a table which held a display of apples.

Apples flew everywhere. Without stopping or looking back, they all managed to reach the plane in time for their nearly missed boarding.

ALL BUT ONE !!!

He paused, took a deep breath, got in touch with his feelings, and
experienced a twinge of compassion for the girl whose apple stand had been overturned. He told his buddies to go on without him, waved good-bye, told one of them to call his wife when they arrived at their home destination and explain his taking a later flight. Then he returned to the terminal where the apples were all over the terminal floor.

He was glad he did.

The 16 year old girl was totally blind! She was softly crying, tears
running down her cheeks in frustration, and at the same time helplessly
groping for her spilled produce as the crowd swirled about her, no one stopping and no one to care for her plight.

The salesman knelt on the floor with her, gathered up the apples, put them back on the table and helped organize her display. As he did this, he noticed that many of them had become battered and bruised; these he set aside in another basket.


When he had finished, he pulled out his wallet and said to the girl,
"Here, please take this $40 for the damage we did. Are you okay?" She nodded through her tears. He continued on with, "I hope we
didn't spoil your day too badly."

As the salesman started to walk away, the bewildered blind girl called out to him, "Mister." He paused and turned to look back into those blind eyes. She continued, "Are you Jesus?"

He stopped in mid-stride, and he wondered. Then slowly he made his way to catch the later flight with that question burning and bouncing about in his soul: "Are you Jesus?"

Do people mistake you for Jesus? That's our destiny, is it not? To be so much like Jesus that people cannot tell the difference as we live and interact with a world that is blind to His love, life and grace.

If we claim to know Him, we should live, walk and act as He would.

Knowing Him is more than simply quoting Scripture and going to
church. It's actually living the Word as life unfolds day to day.

You are the apple of His eye even though we, too, have been bruised by a fall. He stopped what He was doing and picked you and me up on a hill called Calvary and paid in full for our damaged fruit.

Beautiful right? Right. Very beautiful I think. :) 

We should be showing so much love, people think we're like Jesus. 

Me.Compassion.Them.Love.There.Difference.

I want to make a difference. 

Sounds cliche, eh? Yes. It does. Cause everyone is saying that these days. Forgive me, but it almost seems like the new trend in Christianity. Well, I actually want to follow this trend. 

There's a verse.

"And of some have compassion. Making a difference"

Jude 22

I don't know about you, but that's a super powerful verse to me. I read, then read it again, and again, and again, and again. I thought, wow. A verse plainly stating. Amanda Hall, you will make a difference. All those dreams. All those goals. They can and they WILL happen. That verse told me. Go for it.

Now, it's a good possibility I should probably tell you what in heaven's name I'm speaking of. I'll tell you in one word. Then I'll possibly elaborate. :)

Here's the word.

Taiwan. 

Yes, that was it. Taiwan.

Why?

I have a close friend, and her sister went to Taiwan. I know two other girls, they went to Taiwan.

Ever since I heard a little about it, I've had such a passion for that. I want to go.

For what?

To teach.

Teach who?

The little girls an boys in the public schools over there.

Teach what?

English, and Character.

So why?

Because, I love them. 

But why?

Because, God told me to. He instilled this dream/idea/mindset in me.

How long?

A year. One full year.

You're probably thinking...ummm helloooo, aren't you too young for this?

Yep, right now I am. But when I turn eighteen I won't. :)

You're probably a little bored of my ramblings. But, thinking about this, it pumps me up.

This is definitely God's plan for me. 

Wanna know how?

This past week, I got hear a man speak on this. I was just sitting there, didn't even know he was gonna talk about it, then he said Taiwan, of course my head popped up and I held my breath. I was thinking..."is he talking about what I think he is?"

Yes, he was. 

I've been praying about this for so long, telling God, if this is for me. Give me proof. Well, proof hit me on the head this past week. Yep. Guess who's gonna go to Taiwan.

Yep, that'd be me.

"And of some have compassion. Making a difference"

Jude 22

Thank you muchly for reading my ramblings. I just had to write about this. :)

Taiwan. :)