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A subject I’ve been thinking about lately was really brought home to me at our Praise-a-Thon while I listened to Rik Osborne singing Colin Ray’s song, “What If Jesus Comes Back Like That?” The song describes a hobo living under a bridge and it also portrays a premature baby born addicted to crack. The singer asks what we would do if Jesus came back like that. I’ve heard positive comments to the words, and also remarks from people who think the song is blasphemous. Let me give you some scriptures to think about.

“...he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him. He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not. Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.” Isaiah 53:2-4

“For I was an hungered, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in: Naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye visited me: I was in prison, and ye came unto me. And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.” Matthew 25:35-36, 40

God created every person in His image. “That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world.” John 1:9

So Jesus does come back “like that”. He comes in the hungry and thirsty soul. He comes in the homeless, the naked, the sick and the one in prison. He comes with no beauty, despised and rejected, grieving, stricken, afflicted. We would like to think that He only comes as the victorious warrior, full of glory, majesty, might and power, saving the world. Yes, He does come like that, too.

What will you do with Jesus’ words in Matthew 25? Will you reach out to those in need, realizing that in so doing, you are reaching out to Jesus? The resurrection is not past. (2 Tim. 2:18) He comes alive and new in each one who believes in Him.