ITS ALL IN HOW YOU LOOK AT THEM

“So from now on we regard no one from a worldly point of view….” (2 Corinthians 5:16 NIV)

This was a verse in our Sunday school lesson. It is a verse that comes in the midst of a passage on our having been reconciled to God through Christ, and about how Christ died for all people.

It got me to thinking about the worldly ways we look at people around us. When the world looks at people it sees with worldly eyes. It doesn’t see someone who was worth the death of Christ. It sees race, gender, intelligence or lack of it, etc.

If there were no other verse in the Word of God that teaches us to be careful about how we condemn people because of their sins. When the Bible teaches us that Christ died for ALL, that means there are no exceptions. We are instructed to try to see people the way God sees them. That is very hard to do.

However, the fact that it is hard to do is no excuse for our lack of attempting to do so. Many of us are quick to condemn people because of certain sin in their lives. That is a sure sign we are looking at them from a worldly point of view, instead of through the eyes of God.

Well, that’s about all I wanted to say about this. It was on my mind, so I wanted to share it.