To Know Him
How does one know the Lord? Do you see Him with your eyes?
Do you touch Him, or do you feel Him, or do you look into the skies?
The answer is “YES” to all the above and give me a little time to explain.
As I expound on the lessons that I’ve learned as we have traveled the African plain.
How does one know the Lord? Do you see Him with your eyes?
The answer is found in the lives of those who are Jesus in disguise.
He is found in the orphans who lived in the heaps at the garbage dump near our home.They waited each day for the dump truck to come and to leave another load.
I watched as they dug thorough the rubbish one day, just trying to find a meal. And then at last “sheer delight” when they found an orange peel!
At that moment I remembered the Scriptures, where we are told to think. To look at the birds of the air, they neither sow nor do they reap.
Our Heavenly Father keeps feeding these birds, are we not worth more than they? I answered Him “YES” as I watched Him feed the orphans again that day.
Can you touch our Lord with human hands? I must say that the answer again is “YES”. For when you have served the “least of these” you have served Him the best.
I remember a boy named Sebu who had sores all over his arms.
He smelled to high heaven and wore tattered clothes but you could love him with no alarm.
We met him on the side of a road, where a farmer had left him for dead. We scooped him up to the hospital, finding no injuries but a scratch on his head.
We met him several times in town between the alleys where he slept, where the dogs became his blanket at night and where he laid his head and wept.
You see, Sebu had HIV/AIDS and no one wanted him to be found.
But Jesus loved him very much and turned his life around.
Sebu contracted AIDS by protecting the other orphan boys.
By warding off the preying men who would use them as their toys.
He stood in the gap and took the abuse so the others could go free.
Sebu was Jesus in human flesh, would you agree?
We told Sebu of Jesus and how He died to make him free.
He received Jesus on the spot and no one could disagree.
That Jesus now lived in Sebu, with his sores and smelly clothes
I held that boy so close that day, the smell never bothered my nose.
I realized I was touching Jesus and His compassion filled my heart.
How many others can we hold if we all would do our part.
Jesus is all around you...in nature, in people, in things.
You just have to stop thinking of yourself all the time and be a part of the Love that He brings.
