June 27, 2009 Zaccheus was a "wee" little man

Bible Verse of the Day: And when Jesus came to the place, He looked up and said to him, "Zaccheus, hurry and come down, for today I must stay at your house."
And Jesus said to him," Today salvation has come to this house, because he, to is a son of Abraham.
"For the Son of Man has come to seek and to save that which was lost."
Luke 19:5,9-10

Random thoughts: Remember the song we sang about Zaccheus when we were small. "Zaccheus was a wee little man and a wee little man was he,
He climbed up in the sycamore tree for the Lord he wanted to see."
I wonder if Zaccheus was as "wee" in stature as he was in backbone. Maybe he was average height but didn't stand tall by Jesus standards. Maybe he just knew he needed to see Jesus because he knew how wrong he had been for so long. True, it could have been a physical disability, but I think the jest of the story is how he didn't stand tall for Jesus.

How tall are we? Do we stand tall for Jesus? When God looks down on us, are we of small stature or do we stand tall as the redwoods? That is a judgement call that we will only know on Judgement Day. I don't know if I am ready to be rated yet. I think I still need to grow. If you have been blessed with physical height you know there are many things that are within your reach that shorter people cannot achieve. Spiritual height measures the same way. If we have grown is stature there is a closer walk we can take with the Lord, that the shorter us cannot have. God richly blesses those of his own that eat right(hungry for the Word) and grow strong bones(A personal walk with God).

Still growing for the Lord,
Vera