For us ‘finding Jesus’ seem a moment that will happen when we have lived our living years on earth and be gone to God’s abode.
Like a distant moment yet to come, so we are waiting till then.
But Scriptures speak us of finding Jesus, here and now as we live.
Jesus is here and near
The Scriptures speaks a more immediate, tangible truth: finding Jesus is consistent, it will not be for us some spectacular scene, but is in the small and sometimes mundane everyday moments.
We will find Jesus when we choose love over indifference, service over self, and kindness over convenience.
Matthew 25:40-45 from the Holy Bible shows us a stunning picture of the final judgment.
The verse speaks of Jesus’ presence amongst the hungry, thirsty, the troubled stranger, the sick, and the imprisoned.
Finding Jesus is here for us and so near every day, therefore when you hand a meal to someone experiencing homelessness, you are handing it to Jesus, the eyes of gratefulness is not of the hungry and needy, but they are of Jesus.
You are visiting Jesus, when you are meeting the lonely neighbor.
Your patient, kind words to a frustrated coworker or a weary cashier, is your words towards not them but towards Jesus, now in your rush hour in the morning, you must have missed your prayers, but this encounter of kind words was truly a strong prayer in disguise towards the Lord.
So you’re ascending to a mountain and having the ‘transfiguration’ moment of finding Jesus can wait for the future, feel the presence of Christ today in the little things and moments,
Living the Jesus’ Way
- Live like Jesus every day, so when you serve the needy and also others in general, you are resembling Jesus washing the disciple’s feet.
- Listening to the grievances and hurts, and encouraging them to be strong in faith and hope is being like Jesus, who had a compassionate heart, and an attentive ear to the cries of the marginalized and also the troubled in life.
- Forgiving others is finding Jesus’ heart and will and resembling His outstretched arms.
Your every small act is a sacred meeting with the Lord, a prayer to Jesus.
We have our hidden Lord Jesus, revealed to the world around us by our act of doing Jesus’ will.
Isn’t that so simple yet amazingly deep and profound.
So in the simplicity of moments, finding Jesus becomes an everyday event, when the eyes of the person in need becomes the very eyes of Jesus, a good two thousand years from now when He walked on earth.
He has not left the earth, He still lives here and now, we just need to reach Him, and it’s not so difficult.
And in this encounter, it’s not about finding Jesus, but being the ones who are truly found by our lord and our God, Jesus Christ.
