Zacchaeus | By Kenny Guzman



Sometimes you might think that everywhere you go people don’t notice you because you are not popular enough or because you don’t consider yourself interesting enough to fit in certain group. You do everything in your power to be popular and become them. You forget about who you are and how God made you. You forget about the fact that God made you with a whole package full of talents and abilities that you might not see it now but they are there and God made you ready so the people that needs to be close to you can feel lucky to have you.

In Luke 19:1-10, Zacchaeus a tax collector was a short man, he used to go to every houses and collect money from the civilians. He was rich, powerful, anybody would like to have the power in money that he had. But he also has bad reputation in the community because he was also considered as a thief. But, one day Jesus was passing by his community and he wanted to see him, but because he was short, he had to climb on a tree once he was there Jesus noticed that he was there and asked him to come down because he wanted to come in to his house. Of course, due to his bad reputation people were talking and murmuring because Jesus wanted to come to his house, they couldn’t believe it. Now, Jesus’ arrival into Zacchaeus house and into his life, changed him completely. This man decided to do things right and promised God to be a new person again. Zacchaeus accepted Jesus into his house, then he made the decision to change and to use his money for good purposes and so since then God saved him from spiritual death.

Zacchaeus probably thought that he didn’t deserve such as visit and because his limitations as his size might be, Jesus would never notice that he was there. We all have that issue and especially with God. We tend to resist to his call because we think that we don’t deserve such love or attention, or we don’t deserve his mercy but then we feel that emptiness inside of our hearts that all we want to do is fulfill it with other desires and short term “happiness”. We hold so tight to our pride and we make it so hard to recognize that we need JESUS CHRIST in our lives so we can feel complete.

This man had a whole package already inside him, he was rich, he was a tax collector, a boss, a leader. His only problem was that he was using his package for the wrong reasons, wrong purposes which is why his life was meaningless and he couldn’t find himself in it. In God we are never meaningless, he gives meaning to our lives, he builds us up, he makes us a better person, the person he always wanted us to be. In God, we are made to put our whole packages full of talents into his hands to use it properly how it is supposed to be.

WE FIND PEACE, WE FIND LOVE, WE FIND FAITH/HOPE IN GOD!!!!

God Bless you,
Love,
Kenny G

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