Two young men were returning home after a sales conference in Chicago. As they realised that they were too late for the flight, they rushed through the airport, with all their luggage. It was the time for the ‘Final Call’. As they rushed, they bumped into a table which had a stack of apples on display for sale, causing all the apples to be scattered on the floor. Little did they care about it as they were too desperate to reach the counter. 

However, one of the men felt a stabbing thought in his heart. ‘What I did is wrong’, he said to himself. And then he called to his friend, ‘I will go pick up the apples and put them back on the table’. His friend, however, did not care to listen but went on to board the plane. 

With a heavy heart the young man returned to the table, to see that a young blind girl was bending on her knees, picking up the apples one by one and setting them back on the table. ‘I will help you’, he said to the girl, bending down and picking up the apples. He picked up each and every one of them and laid them back in order on the table just as they were before he knocked them down. But he noticed that some of the apples were bruised and squashed in the fall. He considered the price of the damaged apples and gave her a bigger amount and said, ‘This is the price for the apples that are damaged. Goodbye!’

As he moved to the counter to book the next flight he heard the young girl, blind in both eyes, calling out to him, a call that resounded in the whole airport, ‘Mister, are you Jesus Christ?’

That is the most blessed status any man can ever receive while in this world!! To be conformed to the image and likeness of Jesus Christ, the Son of the most High God, to be partakers in the divine nature of Jesus Christ, to grow in His light and radiance, and be transformed into the image and likeness of the Son!! 

For whom He did foreknow, He also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the firstborn among many brethren. Romans 8:29 

And because of his glory and excellence, he has given us great and precious promises. These are the promises that enable you to share his divine nature and escape the world’s corruption caused by human desires. 2 Peter 1:4 

But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as by the Spirit of the Lord. 2Corinthians 3 :18