I dont know if my new friends are Christians. They probably believe in God and attended church at some point in their life- but theyre not walking. And so our relationship includes the testing and jabbing that sometimes happen when you bring an outsider into your life, Where is Jesus in this room? The girlfriend wanted to know, Some one told me once that in every room you enter the presences of Jesus is always there in a human form. So where is Jesus in this room. Now I dont where that theology came from. I never heard of it before. But I wasnt about to just discard the notion. This was a woman who was trying to engage me on a spiritual level. So you roll with it. You kind of humor them and in this case that meant my eyes scanned the room looking for Jesus. I landed on a baby being held by its mother on the other side of the room. A baby seemed like a safe choice. This child was a living symbol of a new beginning- there was hope, there was honesty, there was a total and complete lack of bitterness all in one package. But thats not why I choose the kid. Instead it became my selection because it was, and forgive me for saying this, a very ugly child. I mean not all babies are cute, and this one wasnt. But through that ugliness I got a chance to talk to my friends about the concept of the least of these. Look for Christ in a room and its not going to be the pretty people. It not going to be the guy who is holding court at his table, making every body laugh and getting all the attention. Nor is it going to be the woman who looks like she has everything together:perfect family, perfect hair, perfect home. It is always instead going to be someone who is being ignored, someone who is far from perfet, someone is gone unnoticed- it is always going to be the ugly baby. Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me. My selection lead to an interesting conversation where we went a little bit deeper. At the end of the night my new friends left still as outsiders (it was never my intent to convert them) but perhaps with a little better understanding of the true nature of Christ.
Posted on: Sun, 24 Aug 2014 13:36:53 +0000
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