{"id":17588,"date":"2013-03-31T10:00:51","date_gmt":"2013-03-31T18:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/redeeminggod.com\/?p=17588"},"modified":"2015-07-31T17:29:27","modified_gmt":"2015-08-01T00:29:27","slug":"finding-easter-with-the-homeless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redeeminggod.com\/finding-easter-with-the-homeless\/","title":{"rendered":"Jesus is Risen! (and He&#8217;s with the Homeless)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\"  style=\"margin-left:10px\" alt=\"Easter with the Homeless\" src=\"https:\/\/redeeminggod.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/13Ideas_Take_Easter_to_the_Homeless-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Amazing grace,<br \/>\nHow sweet the sound.<br \/>\nThat saved a wretch like me.<br \/>\nI once was lost,<br \/>\nBut now am found.<br \/>\nWas blind,<br \/>\nBut now I see.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>We spent last Easter morning with the outcast &#8212; the lame, the thieves, the alcoholics, the drug-addicts, the murderers.<\/p>\n<p>We climbed out of our warm beds and headed out into the streets laden with bags of clothes, food and water. We shared what we had with those who had slept under bushes, on the ground and any other place they could find.<\/p>\n<h2>Happy Easter!<\/h2>\n<p>&#8220;Happy Easter! Happy Easter!&#8221; we told them.<\/p>\n<p>Almost every person greeted us with &#8220;Happy Easter!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>These are supposed to be the people who don\u2019t know Jesus. But they do. They have seen Jesus walking among them. He has danced with them. He loves them. They like Jesus.<\/p>\n<p>Jesus was with them in prison. He visited them there. <\/p>\n<p>He was with them in Southeastern Asia when they spent the years rotting away in bamboo cages lowered into holes. <\/p>\n<p>He was with them as they walked the streets of America, looking for a place to lay their head. <\/p>\n<p>They told us Jesus was with them.<\/p>\n<h2>Grace to the Homeless<\/h2>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Grace. It\u2019s all about grace. No matter had bad we screw up, God\u2019s grace is still good. He never forgets us. He\u2019s always there. He\u2019s always been there for me. He\u2019s been there the last eighteen years while I\u2019ve traveled around the country. I don\u2019t have a dime to my name, but I\u2019ve got God\u2019s grace. It\u2019s all about grace. Don\u2019t ever forget that.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So said the man sitting on the sidewalk on Easter morning. The man with no home. The man with nothing. But he knows that Jesus lives!<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSee this mark behind my ear,\u201d said another. That\u2019s where the VC shot me. The bullet came out through my nose. See this big white patch on my thigh\u201d he said, pulling up his pant leg. \u201cThat\u2019s where they got the skin to graft onto the left side of my face. Another bullet ripped a big hole there and they had to patch it. God got me through it and He\u2019ll get you through whatever comes your way too.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-17591\" alt=\"Easter with the Homeless\" src=\"https:\/\/redeeminggod.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Easter-with-the-Homeless-570x379.jpg\" width=\"570\" height=\"379\" srcset=\"https:\/\/redeeminggod.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Easter-with-the-Homeless-570x379.jpg 570w, https:\/\/redeeminggod.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Easter-with-the-Homeless-150x99.jpg 150w, https:\/\/redeeminggod.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Easter-with-the-Homeless-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/redeeminggod.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Easter-with-the-Homeless.jpg 650w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 570px) 100vw, 570px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>We Found Easter<\/h2>\n<p>We gave a cup of water, a warm coat, and we found Easter. The risen Jesus had been there. The risen Jesus was there, walking among those outcast and despised by the world. He too had been outcast and despised. He knows what it\u2019s like. He walks among those He loves. They see Him. They see the One who was despised, rejected and afflicted. <strong>He is one of them.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>He is risen!<\/p>\n<p>He is risen indeed!<\/p>\n<p><strong>He walks among His people. Jesus walks among the poor, the outcast, and the homeless.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>He loves us. Whether we\u2019re thieves, adulterers, liars, cheats, gluttons, alcoholics or murderers, He loves us.<\/p>\n<p>Whether we see Him in a fancy building with stained glass windows or dancing with us in the streets, He\u2019s there. 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