He ran to meet them

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“And he lift up his eyes and looked, and, lo, three men stood by him: and when he saw them, he ran to meet them from the tent door, and bowed himself toward the ground, And said, My Lord, if now I have found favour in thy sight, pass not away, I pray thee, from thy servant: Let a little water, I pray you, be fetched, and wash your feet, and rest yourselves under the tree: And I will fetch a morsel of bread, and comfort ye your hearts; after that ye shall pass on: for therefore are ye come to your servant. And they said, So do, as thou hast said.”

There is a very important principle illustrated in this section and we read about it in Matt 25: 31-46. Specifically verse 40 says, “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”. Notice that this refers to the plural, that means any one of us can either do good things to the Lord Jesus Christ or bad things to Him simply by dealing well or badly with His servants. This is a very sobering thoughts. It is easy for us to get caught up in playing politics so that we can win power and control in our local Christian organisation but sometimes we have to tread on a few toes. Everyone knows that you have to break some eggs to make an omelet. However, the eggs that you just broke might be some of the least of the Kings servants so you have just done something bad to the Lord Jesus Christ. I am sure that Paul was referring back to this passage when he, inspired by the Holy Ghost, wrote Heb 13: 2, “Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.” How wonderful to entertain angels, even if we don’t really know that we are doing it at the time. This also leads us to ask about our own giving patterns as well. Remember this that the gospel is all about priorities, if we get the Lord Jesus Christ first in everything that we do then everything else will follow naturally.