My Heart Is On Fire By Doug Apple - A Short Christian Devotional To Open The Scriptures And Make Your Heart Burn Within You!

I’m Doug Apple...and my heart is on fire. (Luke 24:32) There’s Zacchaeus in the sycamore tree. How did he get there? He climbed, which must have been a funny sight. I have 13 grandkids. We see them in trees all the time, but we never see older people in trees. And we NEVER see older rich people in robes up in trees. But that was Zacchaeus, an older, rich, short man in robes, climbing up a sycamore tree just to get a glimpse of Jesus who was coming that way in what basically must have been like a parade. Why was Zacchaeus so interested in Jesus? Why is ANYONE so interested in Jesus? In fact, why on earth are millions of people on earth still to this day so interested in Jesus? It can’t be because he was a local phenomenon, flash in the pan, 15 minutes of fame guy. Nobody is that interested in someone like that. Rich guys in robes don’t climb trees for that. So why was Zacchaeus there? That’s one of the oddities in this story of Zacchaeus. Why was he there? Luke 19:3 says he “…sought to see wh