A few years ago a group of salesmen went to a regional sales convention in Chicago. They


had assured their wives that they would be home in plenty of time for Friday night's dinner. In their

rush, with tickets and briefcases, one of these salesmen inadvertently kicked over a table which held

a display of apples. Apples flew everywhere. Without stopping or looking back, they all managed to

reach the plane in time for their nearly missed boarding.

ALL BUT ONE !!!
He paused, took a deep breath, got in touch with his feelings, and experienced a twinge of
compassion for the girl whose apple stand had been overturned.
He told his buddies to go on without him, waved good-bye, told one of them to call his wife when they
arrived at their home destination and explain his taking a later flight. Then he returned to the
terminal where the apples were all over the terminal floor.
He was glad he did.


The 16-year-old girl was totally blind! She was softly crying, tears running down her cheeks in
frustration, and at the same time helplessly groping for her spilled produce as the crowd swirled
about her, no one stopping and no one to care for her plight.


The salesman knelt on the floor with her, gathered up the apples, put them back on the table and
helped organize her display. As he did this, he noticed that many of them had become battered and
bruised; these he set aside in another basket.

When he had finished, he pulled out his wallet and said to the girl, 'Here, please take this $40 for the
damage we did. Are you okay?' She nodded through her tears.. He continued on with, 'I hope we
didn't spoil your day too badly.'

As the salesman started to walk away, the bewildered blind girl called out to him, 'Mister. ...' He
paused and turned to look back into those blind eyes.


She continued, 'Are you Jesus?'
He stopped in mid-stride, and he wondered. Then slowly he made his way to catch the later flight
with that question burning and bouncing about in his soul: 'Are you Jesus?' Do people mistake you for
Jesus? That's our destiny, is it not? To be so much like Jesus that people cannot tell the difference as
we live and interact with a world that is blind to His love, life and grace.


If we claim to know Him, we should live, walk and act as He would. Knowing Him is more than simply
quoting Scripture and going to church. It's actually living the Word as life unfolds day to day.
You are the apple of His eye even though we, too, have been bruised by a fall. He stopped what He
was doing and picked you and me up on a hill called Calvary and paid in full for our damaged
fruit.


Please share this, if you feel led to do so.

Sometimes we just take things for granted, when we really
need to be sharing what we know...Thanks.