NOTES for Luk 19:1-10
1 And Jesus entered and passed through Jericho. |
2 And, behold, there was a man named Zacchaeus, which was the chief among the publicans, and he was rich. |
3 And he sought to see Jesus who he was; and could not for the press, because he was little of stature. |
4 And he ran before, and climbed up into a sycomore tree to see him: for he was to pass that way. |
5 And when Jesus came to the place, he looked up, and saw him, and said unto him, Zacchaeus, make haste, and come down; for to day I must abide at thy house. |
6 And he made haste, and came down, and received him joyfully. |
7 And when they saw it, they all murmured, saying, That he was gone to be guest with a man that is a sinner. |
8 And Zacchaeus stood, and said unto the Lord; Behold, Lord, the half of my goods I give to the poor; and if I have taken any thing from any man by false accusation, I restore him fourfold. |
9 And Jesus said unto him, This day is salvation come to this house, forsomuch as he also is a son of Abraham. |
10 For the Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost. |
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"And Zacchaeus comes to mind too, the tax collector, a short man who wanted to catch even one glimpse of the Savior. He could not make his way through the crowd, and people despised him because he was short, but he climbed a tree and sat there, and watched... And the Lord called him and came to his house. And we too are short in stature, spiritually. We have not earned at all the right for Him to come to us. Yet He does come...
The Lord said to Zacchaeus: "Today I will be with you." And to each of us He says: "Today I will be with you." "I will be with you," says the Lord; what else do we need? Only to understand well that He comes into a poorly prepared house, not into the kind of house where everyone is waiting for the Guest, where everything shines and everything is decorated, but into a shabby, dark house, full of dust, as if abandoned.
Such is our soul, with its little faith and negligence, spiritual laziness, with prayer that barely glows like a dying flame. With neglect for the commandments and church rules, with constant irritation at everything, with continual bitterness and judgment of one another.
You come to us,
while our thoughts at that moment wander far away...
And it turns out that You are not our King,
but our pride, self-will, self-love,
ambition, vanity,
all the bustle after which we run,
to which we cling"
(Father Alexander Men, from Andrei Eremin's book "A Pastor at the Turn of the Century")
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