"And when Jesus came to the place, He looked up and said to him, 'Zaccheus, hurry and come down, for today I must stay at your house.' And he hurried and came down, and received Him gladly...And Zaccheus stopped and said to the Lord, 'Behold, Lord, half of my possessions I will give to the poor, and if I have defrauded anyone of anything, I will give back four times as much.' And Jesus said to him, 'Today salvation has come to this house, because he, too, is a son of Abraham. For the Son of Man has come to seek and to save that which was lost.'"
~ Luke 9.5-6 & 8-10
There are plenty of sweet things in this passage, but Zaccheus reminded me of how much we should always strive to remember, in that beautiful moment, how we "received Him gladly".
This helps to renew the mind in Christ when we reflect often of our salvation and conversion to Jesus Christ.
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