Focus: The Offer Still Stands (Pt.8)

Text: Mt.11:28

"Come unto me."

Christ invites us to come to Him, and we will be doing ourselves the highest favor and honor accepting His all-important invitation. He invites us for our own good and wellbeing.

One day Jesus Christ saw Zacchaeus on top of a tree in an effort to see Christ and to be seen by Him, for he was a small and short man. He said to him, "Zacchaeus, make haste, and come down; for to day I must abide at thy house." He showed hunger and thirst for the attention of Christ and desired earnestly to be in His awesome presence, and Christ asked Him to come down, and offered to come to his house for a time with him. In addition, Christ made a remarkable declaration to him. He says to him, "This day is salvation come to this house, forsomuch as he also is a son of Abraham" (Lk.19:5,9). Christ brings salvation to the house of Abraham's son, Zacchaeus. 

Indeed, He is the Savior of every man. The Son of God came down from heaven to save the sons of men. Our homes need saving, and Christ the Savior delights in saving His own from temporal troubles and eternal misery.

The offer still stands. Christ is inviting you to come down from the tree of spiritual hunger and intense desire for a supernatural change in your life. Christ would take it from there and ensure that you are saved.

Salvation is every man's fundamental need. No one can be sanctified who is not first saved, and it is the saved and sanctified who gets to be glorified.

Christ wants to be in your house today. He wants to perform the miracle of salvation in the lives of all who live in your house. He never comes to any man's home and leaves it the way He met it. His invitation, if heeded or accepted, leads to a changed life and a revived hope. You will surely find the Christ whom you seek. Zacchaeus was never the same after his encounter with Christ, and for every Zacchaeus alive today, the offer of Christ still stands. Come down from that tree and welcome Christ to your house, and the story of your life is bound to change forever.

Bishop Moses E. Peter