TBP 05: Zacchaeus

Zacchaeus

“Zacchaeus was a wee little man,

And a wee little man was he.

He climbed up in a Sycamore tree

For the Lord, he wanted to see.”

For many of us, this song brings back memories from our VBS days, where we learned about a vertically challenged fellow (short guy) who, in order to see Jesus, climbed a tree and was chosen to host Jesus for a dinner party. Unfortunately, because of the famous nature of the story, we can neglect to go back and study it with a more spiritually mature lens. This morning, let’s endeavor to take this story and consider all the lessons that the Word of God wants us to find from this “wee little man.”