How will you see the people you come in contact with today, tomorrow, or next week? How do you currently view the people who you are in contact with at work, at the ball field, at church, closest friends and family members? Thru what lens do you view them?
*Please slow down and contemplate the question and answer which I set before you today, as it is one of staggering reality and essential to our Biblical worldview.
The following is a quote taken from a message on the life of C.S. Lewis.
May God open our eyes to properly see people.
"Finally, Lewis’s conception of our final and eternal Joy in the presence of God, and what an unspeakable wonder that will be, enables him to stand in God-exalting awe of what it means to be human. He has helped me rise above my petty complaints and see people—at least from time to time—as the staggering wonders that they are in the image of God.
"It is a serious thing to live in a society of possible gods and goddesses, to remember that the dullest and most uninteresting person you talk to may one day be a creature which, if you saw it now, you would be strongly tempted to worship, or else a horror and a corruption such as you now meet, if at all, only in a nightmare. All day long we are, in some degree, helping each other to one or other of these destinations. . . . There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilization—these are mortal, and their life is to ours as the life of a gnat. But it is immortals whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub, and exploit—immortal horrors or everlasting splendors." 51
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