Ryan's sermon yesterday on "forgetting and remembering" got me thinking. The Exodus story of the Hebrews' grumbling tummies and God, once again, doing a wonderful thing to provide for them must have rang true in the day of Christ. Surely, the folks who were most drawn to follow Christ had some grumbling tummies as well. As Ray Stevens, the comic singer determined, Jesus, if he were alive today, would NOT be wearing a rolex on his television show!
Jesus would be found among those who are suffering, who are neglected, and who are grumbling because of their needs. Quite often our sinful human (I'd say more inhuman) response to those who are needy is "quit your grumbling and looking for a handout and get up and do something." Thank God that wasn't God's response to the Hebrews, and it wasn't Jesus' response to those who yearned for bread in his day. It shouldn't be our response today.
If Jesus would be found among the poor, the invisible folks that we really only see from time to time on the side of the road...where should we be? What in the world are we waiting for? Remember what God did...remember what Jesus did...remember what we're called to do.
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