FAITH CAPSULE: Are you making uncommon move to get your invitation across to Jesus like Zacchaeus did?

Luke 19:1-10

All that loves the Lord and calls Him Lord will love to invite Him into their house, but the price to pay in getting an invitation across to Him is way too much for the majority. There are too many invitation interceptor and they are deliberate agents to deny every believer’s invitation getting across to Jesus. Zacchaeus who was a tax collector had all what it takes not to get his invitation delivered. The same Zacchaeus also demonstrated what it takes to deny every agent that intercept invitations to Jesus. Among all that it takes not to get invitations across are crowds (the multitudes) and stature. It is written in Luke 19:3 “And he sought to see who Jesus was, but could not because of the crowd, for he was of short stature.” Zacchaeus had both, he was short and he was in the midst of crowd. Zacchaeus needed to see Jesus because his seeing Jesus would help to deliver his invitation to Jesus. The crowd and his short stature were the intercepting agents that would have denied him. Just like Zacchaeus, crowd is all that is clouding you from seeing and understand the need to spend more time in is presence. The crowd in place does not settle well with a short stature. Zacchaeus acknowledged his great dilemma and knew that without making an uncommon move, Jesus would never receive His invitation. As a result he refused to accommodate his dilemmas. The Bible recorded, “So he ran ahead and climbed up into a sycamore tree to see Him, for He was going to pass that way.”(Luke 19:4) Are you making uncommon move to get your invitation across to Jesus like Zacchaeus did? We have to show Him that we want the love he brought to us. It is written, “And when Jesus came to the place, He looked up and saw him, and said to him, “Zacchaeus make haste and come down, for today I must stay at your house.” So he made haste and came down, and received Him joyfully.” (Luke 19:5-6) Do you sincerely desire to have Jesus invited to your house? Just like Zacchaeus did, all believers can do. By getting away from every representation of a crowd and by looking for a higher ground or place where Jesus is conversant, where He is always passing through. As a result of Zacchaeus’ running and climbing, his invitation came to Jesus and Jesus became a guest to Zacchaeus. Zacchaeus a tax collector, short in stature, among the crowd had his invitation delivered and Jesus entered his house. You can invite Jesus into your house if you will go all the way to deliver your invitation.

Prayer for today: I ask for the grace to seek You with all that You have given me.