I’m Better Than I Look - Time to Reassess...Be Encouraged!

Why do we need to assign blame on those who are not as fortunate as others? Truth is:

1. The poor are not those who don’t have resources, but truly are those who don’t know Jesus.

2. The sick and dying are not those who have been diagnosed with a terminal illness, but are those who face this life without Christ.

3. The sorrowful are not those who lost worldly possessions, but truly those who had put all of their faith, hope and identity in those things which are temporary and not on the things that are eternal.

We are quick to judge and assign blame on things that we don’t understand or we assign blame because our own prejudices. We assess what we see with our natural eyes and cultural inclinations and we fail to see with our spiritual senses.

I’m thankful that God doesn’t look on the outside, but He looks at the heart of man. Before we pass judgement on one another, ask God to open your spiritual eyes so that we may see us how He sees us. How does He see us? He sees us as His Beloved Children. He looks at us: our infirmities, our failures, our missteps, our sins, our selfishness and on and on and on...yet He still calls us His and He stills heals and restores those who receive Him as Lord and Savior.

Better put: I’m better than I look!

“Now as Jesus passed by, He saw a man who was blind from birth. And His disciples asked Him, saying, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?” Jesus answered, “Neither this man nor his parents sinned, but that the works of God should be revealed in him.” (John‬ ‭9:1-3‬ ‭NKJV‬‬)

Thankful Thursday

He who knows you the best, Loves you the most!

“O LORD, You have searched me and known me. You know my sitting down and my rising up; You understand my thought afar off. You comprehend my path and my lying down, And are acquainted with all my ways. For there is not a word on my tongue, But behold, O LORD, You know it altogether. You have hedged me behind and before, And laid Your hand upon me. Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; It is high, I cannot attain it. Where can I go from Your Spirit? Or where can I flee from Your presence? If I ascend into heaven, You are there; If I make my bed in hell, behold, You are there. If I take the wings of the morning, And dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea, Even there Your hand shall lead me, And Your right hand shall hold me. If I say, “Surely the darkness shall fall on me,” Even the night shall be light about me; Indeed, the darkness shall not hide from You, But the night shines as the day; The darkness and the light are both alike to You. For You formed my inward parts; You covered me in my mother’s womb. I will praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; Marvelous are Your works, And that my soul knows very well. My frame was not hidden from You, When I was made in secret, And skillfully wrought in the lowest parts of the earth. Your eyes saw my substance, being yet unformed. And in Your book they all were written, The days fashioned for me, When as yet there were none of them. How precious also are Your thoughts to me, O God! How great is the sum of them! If I should count them, they would be more in number than the sand; When I awake, I am still with You.” (Psalms‬ ‭139:1-18‬ ‭NKJV‬‬)