R U Impressed?

What impresses you? Steve Nash busting a 3? Highlights in someone’s hair? BMWs? Yea, it happens to me sometimes too and I think its ok to be impressed. Recently I was in Hollywood to witness the taping of a pilot for a reality show and, unwittingly, I found myself getting impressed. “Hey, there’s Ben Stiller!” “Wow look the actual Hollywood sign!” “I played hoops on the courts used for white men cant jump.” But have you ever noticed that Jesus also got impressed?

This is what Jesus noticed:

A widow giving $2. $2 isnt going to make a difference in any church’s budget, but Jesus was impressed because, to her, even though it was only $2 - it was a true sacrifice to her. He took notice. Another time there was a Roman centurion who said to Jesus, “I’m unworthy of you to enter my house…just speak the word and I know it will happen.” Jesus said that he hadn’t even seen faith like that among the Israelites-people who had a history of experiencing God’s miracles first hand. The Greek uses a rare word that’s only used twice in the NT…”He marveled” (Lk. 7:9). Or what about Zaccheus (Lk. 19), a man short of stature who climbs a tree to see Jesus better. Think of that. A grown man climbing a tree like a little boy … to see Jesus (not Bono). And there’s the tax collector in Lk. 18 who beat his chest begging for God’s forgiveness.

Those are the kind of people that impress Jesus. I hope we can be more like them.