SEE THROUGH JESUS’S EYES
Depending on how
you look at it, I qualify for this guest list on at least 3 of the four items.
By myself, I would be just below the federal poverty level. I’ve had both legs
amputated above the knee and am extremely challenged by cerebral palsy with limited
use of one hand. I am also legally blind! Before everyone lines up to play the
violin, just invite me to dinner (LOL)! All kidding aside, Jesus is describing
those people who are often set aside or ignored at best, and sometimes even
ridiculed. When I was about seven or eight years old, a woman came up to Nana
and me in the mall and declared, “Why do bring her out, so that people have to
look at something like that!” I know now that the lady’s words were due to
ignorance and arrogance, but at the time all they were was painful. She may
have assumed that I was unable to understand her, but I understood the hatred
and rejection of every word! This is only one of a multitude of encounters like
it, but Jesus’s love for me and my devotion to Him has helped me to overcome
and rise above the prejudices of fallen humanity, remembering that I am
treasured by God. Unfortunately, many of the kind of people Jesus described are
still met with similar attitudes. Examine your own response to the people with
these challenges you cross paths with each day. Are you viewing them with human
eyes or through the eyes of the One who died on the cross to save them as well
as you?
1 Samuel 16:7b for man looketh on the outward appearance, but
the Lord looketh on the heart.
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