“How do you expect me to come with you? Just come and be teaching me Bible things: I like to hear them”. What is wrong with you coming to the meeting? “My prestige is at stake. What will my associates think when they see me trotting alongside the likes of you with a Bible in hand? They will make fun of me to no end!” Do you really love Jesus? “Of course I do, how can you doubt that I do?”
Do you think you are more prominent in society than Zacchaeus was? ... a chief tax collector, who was rich. He was trying to see who Jesus was, but he was a little man and could not see Jesus because of the crowd. So he ran ahead of the crowd and climbed a sycamore tree to see Jesus, who was going to pass that way Lk 19:2-4(GNB). He did not say “I have tried by coming to this road, if God wanted me to see Jesus He should have made me taller and not disgrace me like this”. No; he threw shame aside, climbed a common sycamore tree and awaited Jesus. What do you think his associates would have thought or said of him seeing him, or hearing about it? You can’t hide in that type of tree you know. “You know I love church things, I love them. God knows my heart and He sees it”. That will not be enough...
“No now! Did God not bless David because it was in his heart to build the house of God?” This David gave up all his treasure for the house of the Lord, it was not just in his heart: And because this house of God is dear to me, I give my private store of gold and silver to the house of my God, in addition to all I have got ready for the holy house1Ch 29:3(BBE); or are you like Herod? “At all! I do not want to kill Jesus at all, no pretence about it.” I’m not talking of the senior Herod who wanted to kill Jesus but his son who Pilate sent Jesus to. Now Herod was very glad to see Jesus, because he had been wanting to see him for a long time on account of what he had heard about him. He was also hoping to see some sign done by him. So he continued to question him for a long time, but Jesus gave him no answer at all. Even Herod and his soldiers treated him with contempt and made fun of him Lk 23:8, 9, 11(ISV).
Even though he wanted for a long time to meet with Jesus he never considered it important enough to leave the affairs of state to see Him. The Jesus that was sent to him was bound up, silent, and performed no miracle. “Eh do you have night fellowship? Maybe I shall come for that one.”
If you do not let go of your pride to meet Jesus you shall be disappointed in the end.
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