“The Unclean spirits, too, when they saw him, would fall down at his feet and cry aloud, ‘You are the Son of God.’” - Mark 3:7-12
Reflection by Reverend Carl Rehling
“You are the Son of God” causes me to ask a question by changing a few words “are you a Son of God?” Our church and scripture tell us we are His children. But do we always act as if we are? Do we appear to those around us, at work, at home, or school wherever, whenever?
Maybe the story of a young business man and Apple Mary will help us to address this question.
The story goes back a few years when the train was the main mode of travel for business men. In the station that the young man used for his travel was the almost-blind Apple Mary and her apple stand. This was her only source of income.
One morning as he was hurrying thru the station to a big deal with a big commission, the young man, with the rushing of the crowd and his haste, bumped into Mary’s apple cart and the apples went rolling. Mary was devastated; her source of livelihood was gone. But the young man stopped and crawled over the dirty floor. He retrieved and cleaned every apple and returned them to the cart. He missed his train, missing the big deal and the big commission, but he was about to receive the greatest reward a child of God could receive.
Mary, though almost blind, could see enough to realize what he had done and said to him, “WHO ARE YOU? ARE YOU JESUS?”
He had acted as a child of God. The word for us is “GO AND DO LIKEWISE.”
Lord, help us to break through to that area of human life where people can touch each other in love, for there we will find what you saw when you made us to be like you.
