If Jesus was Here Today
Monday, 3. December 2007, 13:30:15
In this world today we have become so accustomed to the bizarre that we are willing to accept almost any act without batting an eye. It was called future shock after the book by Alvin Toffler (even though it was just the opposite) when I was growing up. We accuse New Yorkers of being cold hearted folks who step over bodies on their way to work without ever noticing.
I'm starting to learn that the term we used years ago that the world was getting smaller no longer applies. It has already shrunk. People are over this planet are virtually the same.
In talking to a group of Native Americans in Arizona I was fastenated in enjoying their sense of humor as they recalled being extras in a cowboy and Indian movie. They chuckled about the one "white man" bullet being shot and 4 "Indians" falling off their horses.
I listened intently as an American man who had married a Nigerian woman told me his story about having to adhere to the custom and send $50,000.00 to her family for the dowry. She did however inform him that they had made him a king in Nigeria. His complaint, after a reality check, was that what they had made him was a fool.
It seems that no one seems to see the obvious until after the fact. This started me wondering what would it have been like if Jesus lived today. With that in mind I prepared a brief illuustration of my conception of just one incident that Jesus might have found himself in. As you can see the fact of his feat (no pun intended) would go without notice in this time of acquiescence.
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