Do you ever wonder why other people can’t see things the same way you do? Do you catch yourself believing you are the one with perfect vision and everyone else needs to get their eyes checked? Wouldn’t it be grand to see things exactly the way the Lord sees them? To see through his eyes the people that are hurting. To see exactly how we should respond to them. Just to know that when we move in a direction to help them that we will truly be helping them instead of hurting them. Just to have spiritual 20/20 vision.
We need to look around at those who don’t have 20/20 vision and when they are struggling to read or find out something, we need to lend a helping hand. We also need to do this in the spiritual realm , there are those longing to see God better but don’t know how. Will you be there to lend a helping hand to them or will you have no compassion and just walk on past them?
Maybe we need a visit to the great physician. He can help us clear the cataracts from our eyes and help us see things the way Jesus does. He can help us see where we have been looking at situations with a blurred view. When I look at a situation I look at it with my eyes, eyes that have learned certain traits, eyes that have learned to shut out certain facts, eyes that have learned to shade in new colors to make things look differently than they truly appear. Am I the only one that see’s this situation from this prospective? Probably not, for you see there are many of you that were raised the same as I. You have also learned to throw in the shades of colors you choose. When doing so, we are distorting the truth of the matter.
The Lord had compassion on sinners. I was just speaking with a friend yesterday who said, I know I should have compassion but honestly they should have known they were destroying their body. Therefore, “I have no compassion”. Sadly, too many of us say the same thing but we all have things in our lives that we also need to clean out. When the Lord looks down with his perfect vision, he sees his small child trying to do things all by himself/herself. Does he slap the daylight out of us? Does he walk away and say, “He deserves what he gets”? No, with his tender compassion and mercy he says, “come child, let me wipe you off”. “Come and sit with me, talk with me and learn of me so that I can help you see things as I do”.
You see, through his eyes we are all dirty until we allow him to cleanse us. We all make mistakes. I am no better than you and you are no better than me. Just all lost children trying to find the way. The only difference is some go to the father and ask him for direction while others try to find it on there own. Does the Lord come along to them and slap them upside the head? No, he still gently ask them to follow and he still offers his love, mercy and kindness to them even if they do wrong? Does he agree with what they are doing? No, but he never stops loving them. We need sit with the Lord long enough that our eyes of compassion are made perfect. We need to love the unloving, help the hurting, and continue to see the world through Jesus’ eyes instead of our own.
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