Seeing Through God’s Eyes

Just before Teresa and I went to Bozeman, MT, I started asking God to allow me to see through His eyes; to see the needs of the people in this city. God allowed me to see through His eyes toward the end of our week of activities and praying. There is a 9 mile section of Bozeman that will have 1500 houses built in the next couple of years. We drove through this stretch of road coming back from whitewater rafting. God showed me the areas that could be connection points (what I call possible places to meet people and introduce them to Christ). Seeing people through the eyes of our Savior will give you the right perspective.

We walk through our day most of the time just doing what we need to do. We seldom look at the people around us. We have Living Water and are surrounded by people who need this Water. They are dieing without it. We need to start seeing people like God see them. People who are in need of true life and not the counterfeit one they have now.

Ask God to allow you to see your family members, co-workers, friends, and neighbors through His eyes. You will see people for who they really are. You start seeing the happy go lucky co-worker who “plays the field” as who he/she really is, a lonely person looking for true love. You start seeing the rude neighbor who no one likes, as a person who just wants someone to talk with them and listen to them. Jesus saw through the facade, and if we ask He will give us the ability to do so as well.

We need to get over ourselves and get out of the comfort zone and start looking at the real world. We live in a world full of people looking for something to fill the void in their hearts (i.e. traditions, spiritualism, church, sex, drugs, etc.) instead of Who truly can fulfill them; Jesus Christ. It’s about a relationship with Christ and not attending church.

If we had a canteen of water and found a person dieing of thrust and didn’t share our water with them and they die, we will be guilty of murder. Well, we are surrounded by people dieing and are in need of the true Living Water. We have the Living Water living in us. If we don’t share Him with our family members, co-workers, friends, and neighbors, wouldn’t we be guilty of far worse than murder? People are dieing in their sin in this world, and we are called to go and share with them the Living Water. Ask God to allow you to see through His eyes, so you can share the Living Water with them.

Thanks for reading and until next time grow where you are planted.