Intimate Moments With The Savior: Learning To Love

Description for INTIMATE MOMENTS WITH THE SAVIOR: LEARNING TO LOVE by Ken Gire: "The thought captivates Zacchaeus: a Messiah who's a friend of tax collectors. And with a schoolboy's eagerness he shinnies up the sycamore to see him. Suddenly Jesus stops. He looks up at Zacchaeus. Shafts of the Savior's love filter through the branches. A long-awaited dawn shines on a despised tax collector. And a strange warmth begins to stir the cold darkness of his soul. "For years he has rendered unto Caesar; ow he must render unto Christ an account of himself. But the Savior isn't looking for an audit. He is looking for something else. He searches Zacchaeus's eyes to find that stepped-on part of his life. And on it he sees every footprint, every heel mark. "Zacchaeus," he calls him by name, and asks for a place to stay. "Zacchaeus locks onto the eyes that search the far reaches of his soul. They are the eyes both of a king and a friend." None who knew the soul-searching gaze