What do people see when they look at you? As they say a picture is worth a 1000 words. I was in the grocery store the other night. When I came to the check-out lane, there was an older lady giving the cashier trouble. The cashier was trying very hard to be nice to the women. But nothing pleased her. When the lady was through checking out, she grabbed some extra bags off the rack. She didn’t ask for them. The cashier was visibly upset with the woman. What the cashier saw was an irritating, old woman with no manners. What I saw was a woman who didn’t trust anyone. She was full of pain and wanted everyone to feel it. I don’t know if she caused or not. But who she was screamed out to everyone. What do people see when they look at you? When I started walking with God, He had me to minister to the socialably unacceptable people. It was the derelicts, drug addicts, drunkards. All the people ordinary people wouldn’t associate with. They didn’t smell good. They weren’t pretty. They wore tattered clothes. But what God wanted to show me was who they are. I had to look beyond the smell and dirt, to see a person. A person who had a heart that was in pain and didn’t or couldn’t get free from it. Then He showed how to reach those people. We like the nice, neat and tidy people who don’t cause too much trouble. So, what about the rest of the world. What do you see when you look at people? Can you see their hearts? Or do you just ignore them and become self-involved? What do people see when they look at you?
Joseph1637/Crain Blanchard 