Whose glasses are you wearing?

It is so easy for me to want to look down at people or even accuse people of things.  We all I think have this trait inside us.  We see people who maybe down on their luck and instantly want to make harsh judgements about how or why they are that way.  Maybe you see someone in a store that has tattoos all over or piercings and we tend to drift away from that person because of some preconceived fear.  How in the world can we get better at this?  I didn’t say how do we get to where we won’t ever do that.  We can begin to fix our tendencies when we begin to look at people as what they really are……. God’s creation in a fallen state of sin.  You see the way we do that is we actually spend time looking in the mirror.  When we realize that we are exactly the same as that homeless person or the gothic that was in the store our view of them will change.  I am careful to say that we can begin to work on changing that behavior not rid ourselves of it forever.  We all have a tendency to do the things we don’t want to.  Jesus hung out with the people in his day that would be just like the ones we tend to quickly judge or stay away from.  You see Jesus has the ability to see their hearts where we don’t have the same ability.  For us it has to be that we realize that we are exactly the same as they are, and the difference in our lives now is the Grace of God.  I want us all to know that we have a chance to watch people transformed from the inside out.  You have a special gift that can be shared…….the gift of Jesus, the gift of Hope, the gift of Love.  Let us all this day begin to look at people through the glasses of the Gospel and take the worldly glasses off.