Read Lk. 19:8
Have you gone into your closets, putting some stuff together and giving them out, not just the ones you have no need of but the very new ones that still carries “the air of newness” in them?” Excuse me, I can hear you scream/ whisper “consciously or unconsciously.” Yes, I mean those very new ones – the “designer ones” in particular. Remember, the giving that counts is the giving that costs, for it is the price of true love (cf. Gen. 22:1-18; Jn. 3:16; Rom. 5:8).
Have you gone into your closets, putting some stuff together and giving them out, not just the ones you have no need of but the very new ones that still carries “the air of newness” in them?” Excuse me, I can hear you scream/ whisper “consciously or unconsciously.” Yes, I mean those very new ones – the “designer ones” in particular. Remember, the giving that counts is the giving that costs, for it is the price of true love (cf. Gen. 22:1-18; Jn. 3:16; Rom. 5:8).
I just did and it brought tears of joy. The light, the joy, the excitement, the glee and the exclamations that followed – “Wao! Designers!!! God!!! Etc…” – was too much to comprehend. I can’t really explain it. I have felt and seen joy before but this one was just different. I would say it was a big shocker to them, they never saw it coming. The couple was virtually on their knees (the wife was telling her husband the amount of excitement in the shirt, while the man was just… I don’t know); I just had to hide my tears from them. It was as if Jesus in person just walked into our midst. I really felt fulfilled putting that joy in them. It was two new ‘T.M Lewin shirts’ I bought from London recently. The pins and clips falling off as they were admiring it, with the man picking them up (as if he was going to wear those as well with the shirt).
I actually felt a glimpse of what Zacchaeus felt (v.8) when Jesus entered his house; Jesus too wants you have same joy in your life (v.9). Why not light up your life today and someone else’s by doing likewise. It must not necessarily be a T.M Lewin, it can be much more than that. A friend once told me that she had three suit cases of clothes that has not been worn for the past three years, while the ones in the closest have not even been repeated once. You can just imagine. What was she keeping them for? But com to think of it are we any different?
Blessed Mother Theresa of Calcutta did say that the greatest illness of this world is lack of love, man stacking up so much that he/she really doesn’t need. We are all pens, she says, in the hands of God that He uses in writing his love letters. Would you allow your ink to dry up? Be merciful as your heavenly Father is merciful (Lk. 6:36).
Sing today prayerfully “Pass me not, O gentle Saviour” and “Amazing grace.” Study too Deut. 23.
SHEPHERD ME O LORD BEYOND MY STRENGTH.