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Beaver Creek, Colorado
This picture portrays only a portion the stream that runs though Beaver Creek. We don't see where it begins or ends. We only see a sliver.
When we make contact with another person we're only seeing what is before our eyes. We don't see where this person has come from or where this person is going. What we see is where they are at the moment.
The old saying tells us not to judge a book by its cover. In the same way we ought to resist judging people by where they are today; the cover of their lives.
"Do not judge, and you will not be judged. Do not condemn, and you will not be condemned. Forgive, and you will be forgiven." Luke 6:37 New International Version
The ability to forgive flows from the One who has forgiven us, the One who doesn't judge us by our present failures or successes. He doesn't judge us because of his gift of faith that he has sown into our lives, a faith that holds tightly to this gift of forgiveness.
Empathy for others is a result of forgiveness. Empathy is the ability to see beyond a persons failures and successes. A life of faith in the forgiveness of Christ allows us to see another person as one for whom Jesus died.
That view of another person lasts for more than a moment.
Join the conversation at Praying With the Eyes on Facebook. http://www.facebook.com/groups/173881749421231/
When we make contact with another person we're only seeing what is before our eyes. We don't see where this person has come from or where this person is going. What we see is where they are at the moment.
The old saying tells us not to judge a book by its cover. In the same way we ought to resist judging people by where they are today; the cover of their lives.
"Do not judge, and you will not be judged. Do not condemn, and you will not be condemned. Forgive, and you will be forgiven." Luke 6:37 New International Version
The ability to forgive flows from the One who has forgiven us, the One who doesn't judge us by our present failures or successes. He doesn't judge us because of his gift of faith that he has sown into our lives, a faith that holds tightly to this gift of forgiveness.
Empathy for others is a result of forgiveness. Empathy is the ability to see beyond a persons failures and successes. A life of faith in the forgiveness of Christ allows us to see another person as one for whom Jesus died.
That view of another person lasts for more than a moment.
Join the conversation at Praying With the Eyes on Facebook. http://www.facebook.com/groups/173881749421231/
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Text and Photographs ©Copyright 2012-2014 Douglas P. Brauner. ARR.
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