2 Corinthians 5:16-17 (The Message)
"...We don't evaluate people by what they have or how they look. We looked at the Messiah once that way and got it all wrong....No we look inside, and what we see is that anyone united with the Messiah gets a fresh start, is created new. The old life is gone; a new life burgeons! Look at it!"How do we view people? How do we view Christ? He was once fully human and thus able to understand and experience our human emotions and pain. But now Christ is fully divine - one with God - and we see him in that way. Do we view others in the same manner?
Fresh starts. New creations. A new day with a brilliant sunrise. A cleanly erased blackboard. New snow covering the dirt. Spring. I love to imagine and picture everything new, baptized with the waters of morning dew. The divine overcoming human failures. And the real beauty of it all? It's not just in Christ - it can be in all of us through Christ.
Kaleidoscopes allow us to view the world in a new manner, a new light, to put an altered slant on it all. Let's view our surroundings, the people around us, with a CHRIST-o-scope: to see the newness of the light of Christ pour forth. If we seek the divine in our world, we shall find it! Let us begin using our Christ-o-scope with our neighbors and friends, and discover a NEW way to view our world. A Christ way.
