Zacchaeus
Luke 19:1-10 NRSVUE
19 He entered Jericho and was passing through it. 2 A man was there named Zacchaeus; he was a chief tax collector and was rich. 3 He was trying to see who Jesus was, but on account of the crowd he could not, because he was short in stature. 4 So he ran ahead and climbed a sycamore tree to see him, because he was going to pass that way. 5 When Jesus came to the place, he looked up and said to him, “Zacchaeus, hurry and come down, for I must stay at your house today.” 6 So he hurried down and was happy to welcome him. 7 All who saw it began to grumble and said, “He has gone to be the guest of one who is a sinner.” 8 Zacchaeus stood there and said to the Lord, “Look, half of my possessions, Lord, I will give to the poor, and if I have defrauded anyone of anything, I will pay back four times as much.” 9 Then Jesus said to him, “Today salvation has come to this house, because he, too, is a son of Abraham. 10 For the Son of Man came to seek out and to save the lost.”
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Greetings all,
You know, there are some people I really don’t like. It just seems that they are built to aggravate me at best, cause destruction at worst. And to be sure, there are people that should be kept at a safe distance. Some who do serious damage and we are well served to keep our boundaries.
Have you ever met someone so detestable that you could not believe that would ever change? Someone who would make your eyes roll when they said they turned over a new leaf?
Another important question: What happens to a human psyche when introduced to the transcendent beauty of God’s vision for the world? What are we willing to see when Jesus comes to visit?
This Sunday we’ll start exploring this as we consider Luke 19:1-10 and what happens when Jesus calls Zacchaeus down out of his tree.
-Zach