Knowing Him Daily

18.June.2026

Most of us are more observant than we give ourselves credit for, and that is not actually a compliment, because observation without intention is just noticing, and noticing without moving is just another form of walking past, and we have all done it more times than we would like to admit.

We see the person who walks with a limp, the one wearing a jacket that has seen better days, the mother at the register whose card just declined, the grocery cart sitting in the middle of the parking lot that nobody wants to deal with, the piece of trash on the ground that everyone steps around. We register all of it, we take it in, and then we keep moving, sometimes with a critical thought attached and sometimes just with the nudging discomfort of someone who saw something and chose not to respond.

There is a better way to see, and Jesus modeled it every single time He walked into a crowd.

Bartimaeus was sitting on the side of the road doing what he did every day when Jesus passed by, and the crowd around him told him to be quiet, but he cried out louder, and Jesus stopped: “And Jesus stood still, and commanded him to be called.” Mark 10:46-47 He did not just notice Bartimaeus, He stopped and He called for him. He moved toward what everyone else was trying to silence.

Zacchaeus climbed a tree because he was too short to see over the crowd and too accustomed to being overlooked to expect anything different, and Jesus walked right up to that tree and looked up and said: “Zacchaeus, make haste, and come down; for to day I must abide at thy house.” Luke 19:5 He called him by name before Zacchaeus had said a single word, because Jesus did not just see a man in a tree, He saw a man who needed to be seen.

The woman at the well came alone in the heat of the day because that was how she avoided people. However, Jesus was already there waiting, and He asked her for water and then proceeded to tell her everything about her life, not to expose her but to reach her, because: “Jesus saith unto her, Give me to drink.” John 4:7 He initiated, He saw her before she saw Him, and He moved first.

If you see it, own it. Not with a critical eye, not with a judgment you keep to yourself, but with the same intention Jesus brought to every person He ever stopped for, because the person in front of you is not an inconvenience, they are an assignment, and the only question is whether you are going to see them the way He does.

Put the cart back. Pick up the trash. Pay for the groceries. Stop for the one everybody else is walking past.

Make today count and see you tomorrow.