Before an ambulance arrived a police car pulled up and two uniformed officers got out and came over and started talking to the man. This poor drunk thanked me over and over again. Going back across the street I knelt beside the man, held his hand and assured him help was coming. This was even a world before 911, so I dialed the operator and gave her the location and asked for an ambulance. Some younger people might be surprised but this was a world before cell phones and I saw a pay phone across the street. I helped him to lay down and promised I would try to get him some help. Help me.” I didn’t know what to do and the man reached out and took my hands and then started to collapse on the side walk. ![]() I was approached by a man staggering toward me imploring, “Help me. ![]() It was still early in the evening by New York standards, November and starting to get cold. I was walking along the lower end of Madison Ave. When I was a Junior in college I had a similar experience. He had experienced a come to Jesus moment. Francis realized the man had been Jesus in disguise. Francis started again on his way he turned to say goodbye, and the leper was gone. He wanted to pass by on the other side, but mustering up his courage he went up to the leper gave the man the few coins he was carrying, overcame his fear and gave the man a hug. One day as he was walking between towns he noticed a poor leper sitting and begging beside the road. Francis of Assisi was a compassionate minister to the poor, but he was deathly afraid of leprosy, and he avoided making contact with people who showed symptoms of the disease. These are only some of the disguises Christ uses to confront us. Jesus may appear to us in the guise of a stranger, a single mother trying to feed her children, a mentally ill veteran in a homeless camp, an abused child struggling to stay awake in school, a lonely elderly pensioner abandoned by her family. SLIDE 5: CHRIST OFTEN TRAVELS IN DISGUISEĪnd if you are having trouble recalling a time when Jesus may have appeared to you, remember Christ often travels in disguise like when he appeared to two disciples on the Road to Emmaus and they did not recognize him until the breaking of the bread. Sometimes life can pick us up and give us a good shake or even a gentle nudge. When our child said, they loved us in spite of all of our questionable parenting, or when we met someone whose need touched our heart. When we finally found a job, or when the factory closed. When the diagnosis was cancer, or when we woke up one morning and realized we had been healed. Today I would like to suggest that many of us, if we reflect for a while, we will remember, “come to Jesus moments,” we have experienced – times when we saw life in a new way – God moments. But the New Testament scriptures are also full of other kinds of come to Jesus moments: the Risen Christ inviting Thomas to place his finger in the nail holes in his hands, Jesus informing Peter, that he would deny Jesus three times on the night of his arrest, Jesus reaching out and healing the leper, or the blind man, or the woman with the hemorrhage (your faith has made you whole), Jesus asking Nicodemas, if he could be born again, or the tender moment when the Risen Christ called out Mary’s name, and she recognized him. Sometimes we need God to pick us up by the scruff of the neck and give us a good shake. Usually when we talk about a “come to Jesus moment,” we are referring to a dramatic confrontation sort of like Jesus confronting Paul on the Road to Damascus. It includes direct references to Quebec’s Charter of the French Language, in which the notwithstanding clause has been embedded by Bill 96 to suspend fundamental charter rights of ALL Québécois.A Come to Jesus Moment Posted: | Author: hurstrobert9402 | Filed under: Uncategorized | Leave a comment Such a reference should also include his own proposed legislation, Bill C-13 on official languages. For several years now, our pleading has been ignored, but now that the Ford government has fallen in step with the Legault’s government’s pre-emptive use of the constitutional override, it seems that Trudeau has finally had his own come-to-Jesus moment: he had said publicly his government is seriously considering asking the Supreme Court of Canada for such a ruling. Many English-speaking Quebecers and community organizations have been reaching out to Liberal MPs, senators and even cabinet ministers, asking them to urge Trudeau to ask the Supreme Court of Canada to rule on the clause’s use, including pre-emptive use. ![]() This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Manage Print Subscription / Tax Receipt.
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