Wed Inspiration

Morning Inspiration with Pastor Merritt

Who do you owe? Whom have you hurt? Whom have you wronged? Who has rejected you, because of what you have done to them? Are you willing to repay what you owe, repair what you have broken, replace what you have taken?

If you are rejected today by those whom you have hurt, mistreated, or wronged in the past the first thing you need to do is simply let Jesus find you. That is why Jesus says at the end of this story,

“For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost.” (Luke 19:10)

Jesus didn’t say that He came to be found by those who were seeking him. He came to seek those who are lost. What motivated Jesus to go to Jericho? The same thing that motivated Jesus to leave heaven and take on the form of human flesh, to die on a cross, and to be completely separated from His Heavenly Father. He came to seek those who have been rejected.

Now we know that Zacchaeus found Jesus, because Jesus was looking for Zacchaeus. It was Jesus who left heaven to come to the earth where Zacchaeus existed. It was Jesus who came to the town where he worked, to the street where he walked, to the tree that he climbed, to the home where he lived.

Just like Jesus, we should be attractive to those who feel rejected. We should be attracted to those who feel rejected and we should be attentive to those who feel rejected. For Jesus, receives the rejected and forgives them. When the rejected receive Jesus they repent and then everybody can live happily ever after.