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Good Morning!
You know, mothers are pretty incredible.
Raise your hand if your mother has ever said one of the following phrases to you.
“Wipe your feet.”
“Say please and thank you.”
“Mind your manners.”
That last one is a bit intriguing.
How do you mind your manners?
We use the word “mind” in interesting ways.
“Mind your tongue” – speak carefully or politely.
“Mind the story” – be responsible for what happens in the story.
“Mind your Mamma” – listen and do what your mother asks you to do.
“Mind your own business” – only pay attention to your own affairs.
This morning we’re continuing a series called LOVE LIKE THAT.
Particularly, we’re looking at one very important facet of Jesus’ life.
We are going to call it “mindfulness.”
We kicked off last week with a proposition that we all want our relationships to be healthy, not just in our family, but all of our relationships… work, school, even with strangers, maybe even with enemies?
You might be taken aback by that statement.
I mean, how is that possible?
If it were possible to love like Jesus did in all of our relationships, you have to admit your life would be different.
In fact, I submit that just about everything would be different.
This series has a theme verse from Ephesians.
Today, we’re going to look at how observant Jesus was.
Jesus saw what others missed.
When we were kids, there was a book that took the world by storm.
It’s one that many of you read… actually… you didn’t read it because it was just pictures.
It was called Where’s Waldo?
Remember?
This guy in a red and white shirt and cap was hidden somewhere on the pages.
I would stare for hours until at last, I SAW WALDO.
And if I was the first to find him… well, it was awesome.
I saw something nobody else saw!
Until that moment, I was effectively blind, wanting desperately to see.
1. EVERYONE WANTS TO SEE CLEARLY.
Looking in the Old Testament, the opening of blind eyes was one of many identifying characteristics of the Messiah.
I mean, what a miracle!
Can you imagine being blind and having your vision restored?!
Someone who was totally blind now can see.
Doesn’t get much better than that.
Right?
Well, we seem to get a pretty strong message that having spiritual eyesight restored may be an even bigger deal.
Consider the story of the Emmaus road disciples.
They didn’t recognize Jesus.
I don’t know how Jesus did it, but they were kept in the dark.
This conversation ensues about the events of the crucifixion of Jesus Christ.
Jesus seemed to be delighted to hear these two share the story in their own words with such enthusiasm.
After spending a considerable amount of time with them, Jesus gives the big reveal.
Come on, how in the world could you fail to see something that is right before your eyes?
I mean, it’s as clear as day.
It’s Jesus.
How could they miss it?
Think about how fascinating it is that they didn’t recognize Jesus.
Why is it so easy to miss what is so obvious?
Police deal with this on a regular basis.
Witnesses of a crime often miss the obvious.
That makes for a great crime drama, but difficult detective work.
In Love Like That, Les Parrot makes an interesting observation.
“We humans are astonishingly prone to missing what should be abundantly obvious.
The researchers call it ‘perceptual blindness.’
We look but fail to see.
Or we see without observing.
In other words, because of a lack of attention we become blind to what’s going on in plain sight.
And make no mistake, we are all susceptible to this kind of ‘blindness.”
Eliminating our “blindness” is huge in our journey to LOVING LIKE JESUS.
2. JESUS SHOWS US HOW TO SEE.
The Bible uses the term mindful in its description of Jesus.
It’s more than just observant.
It has to do with giving focused attention to something.
As we begin to think about being mindful, of giving something focused attention, I want us to realize we are really good at that.
Don’t believe me?
Fellas, how many times has your mom or wife asked you why you didn’t pick of that thing you keep stepping over?
Ever asked a child, who left all this stuff out? “What stuff?”
All of us have the ability to focus on one thing and ignore others.
The goal we have today is to allow Jesus to change what we see.
As Webster makes clear, to be attentive or mindful means to “express affectionate interest through close observation and gallant gestures.”
That’s interesting.
It means that if you are to be mindful, you need to be brave.
The gallant person goes where others may fear to travel.
And that’s exactly what Jesus did.
When we are mindful, we explore uncharted territory.
It’s uncharted because we don’t know where it will lead.
Jesus often saw what others didn’t.
He would challenge his disciples and others several times with phrases like, “How long must I be with you?”
In other words, don’t you see what’s going on?
Let me share two compelling stories about the MINDFULNESS of Jesus.
Both are familiar to those of us who live in the “church world.”
One is the story about a greedy guy, a tax collector named Zacchaeus.
The second is about a man that nobody particularly liked, in fact, they hated him.
We’ll call him Sam.
Zacchaeus is found in Luke 19:1-9.
Jesus is in Jericho and a man was there by the name of Zacchaeus; he was a chief tax collector and was wealthy.
He wanted to see who Jesus was, but because he was short, he could not see over the crowd.
So he ran ahead and climbed a sycamore tree to see Him since Jesus was coming that way.
When Jesus reached the spot, He looked up and said to him, “Zacchaeus, come down immediately.
I must stay at your house today.”
Now you need to know that tax collectors in those days were a filthy lot.
In fact, bad people were put into two categories at the time of Jesus: sinners and tax-collectors.
The tax collectors were so bad, they were put in their own category of bad.
What do we know about Zacchaeus?
He was Jewish and his name means “righteous one.”
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