I go out to the truck.   I have tools in the back of my truck.  Someone needed them more than I.  So in the middle of a project, with no tools.  I hope that who ever has them gets good use out of them.

 

Life is that way.  You struggle at relationships, jobs, projects only to find that the tools that you thought were there—knew were there– are gone.  Tools like trust, hope, compassion, loyalty, or love are gone.  Stolen by bitterness, depression, loneliness, or desperation.  What now?

 

Jesus encountered many people in the same boat.  They were rejected by the religious elite, the social elite and of course the educated.  They tried to make life work, only to fall flat over and over again.  Sometimes on their own.  Sometimes with help for the before mentioned.

He would meet them where they were.  Reach out a hand.  Smile.  Forgive and restore.  Life returned.

 

Jesus is reaching out to you today.  Take the hand.  Look at the face of true love.  Embrace His life and live.