‘Assuredly, I say to you, inasmuch as you did it to one of the least of these my brethren, you did it to Me.’ (Matthew 25:40)
Jesus taught that we are to be God passionate people (Matthew 7:7-8; Luke 11:9-10.) We are to ask, seek and knock. Seeking is intense asking and knocking is intense seeking. Jesus attached a tremendous promise to this teaching. He promised that everyone who asks will receive, everyone who seeks will find, and everyone who knocks will find himself or herself standing before an open door.
Jesus was referring to our individual pursuit of God in prayer. When people take this seriously and pursue God in the context of a sincere prayer life, they often describe their pursuit of God by gesturing upward. My own personal pursuit of God was greatly helped by a short poem:
“I sought my soul but my soul I could not see. I sought my God but my God eluded me. I met my neighbor and I found all three.”In one of His great discourses Jesus provided a basis for this when He taught that when we describe our pursuit of a deeper relationship with Him, we should not only gesture upward but stretch out our arms horizontally. We should do this because we find Jesus when we give a cup of cold water to the thirsty, food to the hungry, provide clothing to the naked, take in a lonely stranger and visit the sick and those in prison.
When these words of Jesus take on human flesh they look like Mother Teresa. What would these words look like if they took on your mortal flesh?
Dick Woodward, 03 April 2011
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