Could I be mistaken for Jesus

This was forward to me today thought it was worth posting:

This is really powerful and makes one think......Could I be mistaken
for Jesus?

A few years ago a group of salesmen went to a regional sales
convention in Chicago. They had assured their wives that they would
be home in plenty of time for Friday night's dinner.

In their rush, with tickets and briefcases, one of these salesmen
inadvertently kicked over a table which held a display of apples.
Apples
flew everywhere. Without stopping or looking back, they all managed
to reach the plane in time for their nearly missed boarding. All but
one. He paused, took a deep breath, got in touch with his feelings,
and experienced a twinge of compassion for the girl whose apple
stand
had been overturned.

He told his buddies to go on without him, waved goodbye, told one of
them to

call his wife when they arrived at their home destination and
explain
his taking a later flight. Then he returned to the terminal where
the
apples were all over the terminal floor. He was glad he did.

The 16 year old girl was totally blind! She was softly crying, tears
running down her cheeks in frustration, and at the same time
helplessly groping for her spilled produce as the crowd swirled
about
her, no one stopping and no one to care for her plight.

The salesman knelt on the floor with her, gathered up the apples,
put
them back on the table and helped organize her display. As he did
this, he noticed that many of them had become battered and bruised;
these he set aside in another basket.

When he had finished, he pulled out his wallet and said to the girl,
"Here, please take this $40 for the damage we did. Are you okay?"

She nodded through her tears. He continued on with, "I hope we
didn't
spoil

your day too badly." As the salesman started to walk away, the
bewildered blind girl called out to him, "Mister....." He paused and
turned to look back into those blind eyes. She continued, "Are you
Jesus?"

He stopped in mid-stride, and he wondered. Then slowly he made his
way to catch the later flight with that question burning and
bouncing
about in his
soul: "Are you Jesus?"

Do people mistake us for Jesus? That's our destiny, is it not? To be
so much like Jesus that people cannot tell the difference as we live
and interact with a world (shopping, working, reacting to others
that
are serving us) that is blind to His love, life and grace.

If we claim to know Him, we should live, walk and act as He would.
Knowing
Him is more than simply quoting Scripture and going to church. It's
actually living the Word as life unfolds day to day.

We are the apple of His eye even though we, too, have been bruised
by
a fall. He stopped what He was doing and picked you and me up on a
hill called Calvary and paid in full for our damaged fruit.

Let us live like we are actually worth the price He paid.

Author Unknown

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