Perception

2 Corinthians 5:16 "So we have stopped evaluating others from a human point of view. At one time we thought of Christ merely from a human point of view. How differently we know him now!"

 

Judging seems so easy to do.  Everything that a person says just seems right to themselves and for whatever reason their own opinions matter more than others. People fight to be the loudest and get their point across. People get angry and bitter because nobody took their advise or opinion and they get offended. Humanistic we're all like this! That is why we need a Savior.

 

When we evaluate other people from a human point of view we degrade people and place ourselves on a higher pedestal. Filming industries make millions of dollars on these type of movies especially geared toward high schools because the judging game is so easy and relates to all. To judge a book by its cover and accept or reject them socially by our own perception is not what God would want His people to do.

 

As believers we need to be careful not to allow ourselves to slip back into that easy trap of evaluating people by our human perception. Just like the scriptures states even before salvation we had our prejudgment about Jesus Christ and Christianity.  Sure we may have heard about him, but we just knew him as a religious figure in a story. Most of Christianity seems like a fairytale to an unbeliever, but once the veil of unbelief is lifted from our eyes, how differently we know him now!

 

The enemy loves to use our fallen humanity against ourselves and we need to be careful not to fall into the same perceptions that we had at one time. It's time to stop evaluating others and have the Lord start evaluating our hearts. When we start looking at people with a different perspective, just as we did with Christ after salvation we will be begin to know people differently too!