When Jesus reached the spot, he looked up and said to him,
“Zacchaeus, come down immediately. I must stay at your house today.” So he came
down at once and welcomed him gladly.
All the people saw this and began to mutter, “He has gone to
be the guest of a sinner.”
But Zacchaeus stood up and said to the Lord, “Look, Lord! Here
and now I give half of my possessions to the poor, and if I have cheated
anybody out of anything, I will pay back four times the amount.”
Jesus said to him, “Today salvation has come to this house,
because this man, too, is a son of Abraham. For the Son of Man came to seek and
to save the lost.”
Reflection:
How many times would
you have liked to get a better look at Jesus and what he is doing in your life?
Wouldn’t it be so simple if all we had to do was climb a tree and then have
Jesus invite himself to dinner?
The simple fact is that Jesus is constantly inviting himself
into our lives and sometimes we do not see or hear him. Maybe, it is not short stature. Maybe, it is our faith or our belief that
Jesus can show us a new way to live that is “short”.