The World Through Your Eyes

"For God did not not send His son into the world to condemn the world, but so that the world might be saved through Him" John 3:17

In a highly religious environment, it is sometimes difficult for us to fully comprehend this verse. However, Scripture is filled with stories that show us that Jesus saved sinners not only for eternity but where they were at in the here and now. He did not judge the sinner or treat him or her as an outcast. He had compassion on them, associated with them (yet being an influence on them), touched and healed them. He did not feel defiled or compromised in their presence. How often do we stay away from the world because we fear being defiled by it? Isn't He who is in us greater than he that is in the world? Is not Christ in us the hope of Glory? Are not the weapons of our warfare mighty in God to the pulling down of arguments and imaginations?
Jesus proved that even on earth He came not to condemn but save sinners. The challenge for us is to look as Jesus did, with compassion, on the foul mouthed, habitual and blatant sinner who time and time again taunts us with his/her liberal lifestyle and love them. What did Jesus have that kept Him stayed on holiness and yet desirable to the sinner?


"Let me see this world dear Lord, as though I were looking through your eyes.......for if once I could see this world the way You see, I just know I'd serve you more faithfully" (taken from a song sung by Paul Sandberg)