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Luke 19:1-10

The Son of Man has come to seek and to save that which was lost.  —Luke 19:10

As a young person, Robert had many things working against
him—poverty, a broken home, a violent neighborhood. He skipped school
often and was difficult to handle. But when a friend was shot to death,
he considered it a wake-up call. Determined to change his life, Robert
worked hard to bring his grades from failing to top marks.

Yet
the school counselor did not believe in him and told him that no
college would accept him. But Robert proved him wrong. He graduated
from college and pursued a career in education. He chose that career
because, as he says, “Teachers saw me as a non-entity”—a person of
little value. He didn’t want that to happen to others.

Jesus
views everyone as significant. Zacchaeus was a dishonest tax collector
(Luke 19:1-10). Jesus could have ignored him, but He saw him in the
tree and called him by name.

It’s important that Christians
acknowledge others as people with value. Brennan Manning writes, “A
Christian who doesn’t merely see but looks at another communicates to
that person that he is being recognized as a human being in an
impersonal world of objects.”

Do the people we interact with know that we view them as valuable to us and to God? —Anne Cetas

source: http://www.rbc.org/odb/odb.shtml