🌿BREATHE TRUTH🌿
He [Zacchaeus] tried to get a look at Jesus, but he was too short to see over the crowd. So he ran ahead and climbed a sycamore fig tree beside the road, for Jesus was going to pass that way. —Luke 19:3-4
🌿LIVE THE REAL TRUTH🌿
Doors can be a friend or foe depending on their position in our situation. Positional doors possess varying potential.
Doors open and close.
Doors lead to an entrance or exit.
Doors can be of different shapes and sizes.
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Likewise, walls can help or hinder based on their placement in our predicament. Placed doors propose varying purposes.
Walls do not open and close.
Walls block an entrance or exit.
Walls don’t change shapes or sizes.
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The latest news. Jesus is trekking into town. He is entering the city and crowds are enraptured to see Him. The burdened, bruised, bored, and busy all want a glimpse. Through the grapevine, people whisper wonders about Jesus. He is holding the battered, helping the beaten, healing the broken. His mission…to impart power and empower the powerless. His message…to give hope and guide the hopeless.
But to the Pharisees, Jesus is a wall. A solid wall that is inconvenient and incomprehensible to them. Jesus’ teaching is inconsistent with their words. Jesus’ theology is incoherent to their worship. Jesus’ testimony is irrelevant in their world.
To Zacchaeus, however, Jesus is a door. When Zacchaeus discovers he is too short to see Jesus, he seeks a different direction to look for Him. He searches another doorknob to open the door. This isn’t a wall for Zacchaeus. Not an exit but an entrance. Not a barrier that blocks. But a path that unlocks.
Oh what blessings Zacchaeus’s spirit and soul find! More of glory, grace, and God than he could ever have in mind. He pushes through a portal that is the Ultimate Door to new life and love divine.
In John 14:6, Jesus tells His disciples, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one can come to the Father except through Me.” When Zacchaeus opens wide the door of his life to Jesus, he finds a real way to a real truth to a real life.
Jesus opens doors for us we cannot on our own.
Jesus leads us to an entrance that leads to God.
Jesus is a Door that meets us where we are (through different shapes and sizes).
To enter through a door never experienced before requires faith. Zacchaeus surrenders his failures, finances, and future. He shakes his fear, and stakes His faith that what Jesus the Door offers is the real deal. We can too.
The deal to the Door will look different from what we expect. When he wakes up that morning, Zacchaeus has no idea that a tree will be the divine means for him to rise up from his old life to a new one. From wandering to worshipping. God plants a way for us to find new purpose, peace, and passion in a person through His son, Jesus Christ.
From the sycamore tree to a tree on the cross. Zacchaeus’s story is proof that perseverance in the pursuit of greater things bring us greater goals for God’s greatness in our lives.
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©️2019 Jordan Su