Jesus is Talking to You!

Sometimes I wish Jesus wasn’t talking to me. I wish Jesus wasn’t talking to me when he said to his disciples, “It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter the kingdom of God”. But the fact of the matter is, Jesus is talking to me. Jesus is talking to you. 

We have seen over and over again that it is the spiritually poor to whom Jesus gives the blessings of the kingdom. It is to the children. The least. The last. Why? Because those are the ones who come to Jesus empty handed knowing that, for them, salvation is impossible but with God all things are possible.

But when we live in a world where our money can buy us just about anything we want, it’s hard to imagine that we have nothing to give to Jesus. And it’s just as hard to imagine that Jesus has anything to give to us.

Of course, when we peel the onion back far enough, we see that it’s just the opposite. Nothing we have is actually ours. All of it is God’s. For God alone created us. God alone gave us the ability to get up in the morning and go to work. God alone has given us the wisdom and intellect that has made any measure of our success possible. God alone gives good gifts.

And God alone has stopped at nothing so that we might have everything. As the Apostle Paul says in 2 Corinthians 8, “For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sake he became poor, so that you by his poverty might become rich.” 

Because of His grace and his love for us, Jesus was born - an infant just like you. He lived among the poor, the least, and the last. He was crucified with common criminals, but raised again so that the riches of our Heavenly Father might be ours. So that, one day, we also would rise again to new life in the Kingdom of God.