Wednesday, November 13, 2002
Wednesday, November 13, 2002
See, I am sending my messenger to prepare the way before me, and the Lord
whom you seek will suddenly come to his temple. The messenger of the covenant in whom you
delight indeed, he is coming, says the LORD of hosts.
Isn't it fantastic? Jesus was the image of the invisible
God, and when we do His work we become the image of the invisible
Christ. That is who we are. But we would never have known that if
He had not humbled Himself and become the image of true humanity.
(Malachi 3.1
NRSV)
There is a story of a prisoner died of a heart attack in
a Montgomery, Alabama, jail. While in prison he had a
profound conversion experience and entered into an authentic
relationship with Jesus. The convict in the next cell, a huge
man, was a cynic. Each night the prisoner spoke
through the prison bars and told him about the love of Jesus.
The cynic mocked him, told him he was sick in the head, that
religion was the last refuge of the insane. Nonetheless, the
man passed Scripture passages to him and shared his candy
whenever he received a gift from a relative. At the man's
funeral service, when the prison chaplain spoke of the Easter
victory of Jesus, the burly man stood up in the middle of
the sermon, pointed to the coffin, and said, "That's the only
Jesus I ever knew."
Dear God, help me to be a good messenger and model for you. Amen.
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