As I sit here at this keyboard this a.m. my mind going in many different directions, I am thinking about a cassette tape that I was istening to yesterday while diving my old pickup. It's too old to have a cd player so I have to listen to tapes. At least it's better than an eight track. The sermon on the tape was by one Charles Crabtree and he was talking about assigning value to people especially young people; children if you will.
He was talking about people's worth.....no not their net worth, not their stock portfolio, not the kind of house they live in and the automobile they drive, but rather their worth in God's eyes and consequently their worth in our eyes as Christians. We need to look at one another the way God looks at us. It brought to memory another song(what else). It was sung by the late Rusty Goodman and says, "if He sees when a robin falls to the ground, and He grieves when He sees it fall....how much more does He love you and I?" I left out part of that line 'cause I don't remember it all. But my point is there....if He loves a sparrow Jesus said and takes notice when it falls, what about people? People that He has made in His own image, people that He came down to earth for and took upon Himself flesh for so that He could become like us...think of it; God wanted to become like us. Why? So that He could die in our place; so that He could become a sacrifice for us and spare us from dying in our sins. People come in all kinds of shapes and sizes and we pick and choose the ones we want to befriend on that basis; what they look like, or how popular they are. Shame on us for doing that...we think we have to show off or look good to get one another's attention. I think of the story of Mother Theresa living there in Calcutta, India in a little 9' x 6' room most all of her life surrounded by human suffering with the stench of human waste in the very air she was breathing; it was a cesspool outside her door and that place was her parish. A parish of her own choosing or rather God's own choosing. An archbishop came to visit her and she took him to find a man lying there in that horrible place in the fetal position, dying, and she crouched down and cradled his filthy head in her lap and with great compassion she looked up to that archbishop and said excitedly; we have found him, we have found Jesus!
Jesus said in Matthew 25:45, " Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of My brethren, ye have done it unto Me." What kind of value do we put upon each other today?
Oh it's easy to love our own isn't it? I thought of that mother in N.S. who murdered her own 12 year old daughter and I thought if someone had only brought her to the Lord, how different the outcome would have been. We live in a sin-cursed world and we need to put value on the unloved and the unsaved; we need to rescue the perishing and care for the dying...those that are perishing and dying spiritually as well as physically.
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I really enjoyed this post and I think it holds a lot knowledge. We would all do well to really sit down and look at the value we really do put on people. Sometimes it's not really that obvious that we are undervaluing people. Everyone of God's children are precious and more valuable then rubies and gold. We need to remember that when looking at and judging other people. We are as God designed and who is qualified to question God's work.
hi Randall
This is something that we could talk about for ever but you said it all.We are made in God's image.
We say oh they look like their mother or they look like their father but what people should be seeing is the image of God in us.
If we look at people looking for good you will find some but if all you are looking for is something to complain about that is all you will see.Let start looking for Jesus in people it might be hidden
but it is there so let's help bring it out.
C.M.
Well said!
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