TACKLE YOUR PROBLEM!
"...Zacchaeus, make haste and come down, for today I must stay at your house."
Zacchaeus was frustrated because of his inability to make personal contact with someone who was out of his reach. He wanted access to Jesus, but the crowd was great and Zacchaeus was small - too short to make his way to this important person.
But Zaachaeus didn't give up and wallow in self-pity. He didn't demand that others step aside, but he did find a place for himself - not a prime position, but one he wasn't too proud to use. He climbed a tree, and in that unlikely place he made contact with the One he wanted to know.
You have a problem - an inability to make touch with people, whatever your handicaps may be, don't indulge in self-pity nor demand that others make way for you. Size up your limitations and your problem and do what you can to solve it.
Learn to be content where you are at. Be careful not to develop an indifferent attitude. Be realistic about yourself and your ambitions. Not all persons have equal capacity. Do not take on a feeling of personal failure because you aren't as popular as someone else.
Learning to accept yourself and your situation, and to enjoy the good things you have, will free you of resentment toward others and make it possible for you to meet them with genuine warmth and availability.
Commit your need to God, and then step out of the shadows of anxiety into the sunshine of confident trust.
Remember who the winner is in this story - Zacchaeus! Jesus went with him to his house that very day.
And Jesus said to him, "Today salvation has come to this house, because he also is a son of Abraham; for the Son of Man has come to seek and to save that which was lost."
Luke 19:9, 10.
A "little thing" is great or small, depending upon whose yardstick it is measured by.
