Thursday, November 4, 2010

Seeing Through God's Eyes

In the short book of Jonah, we see a prophet with a problem.  When given clear direction by the Lord, he turns tail and runs the opposite direction.  After realizing the hard way he made a bad choice, and setting new records for body odor after being vomited out by a fish, he finally obeyed and preached repentance to Ninevah.  To his surprise, they actually repented!  This made Jonah upset; he was waiting for hellfire and damnation, but instead he witnessed mercy and forgiveness.  God told him, "What right have you to be angry?"  It's a good thing the Lord gives us mercy, and not a human jury.  What things make us angry that are really not worth getting angry about?  Would we be as angry if we saw things through God's eyes?  Is a homeless person a lazy drunk or a person who needs help?  Are the starving children of the world the result of corrupt foreign governments, or our obligation to care for as Christians?  Is the sex slave trade of Asia a cultural tragedy, or an evil that demands a response from the Church?  Let's try and see things through God's eyes, and we might end up seeing much more than we ever have before.

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