Looking Through the Eyes of Jesus

Three young ladies from our church went to Haiti for a week over the Christmas holiday to help with the Cholera epidemic there. They delivered their testimonies at evening service and it was very moving. They told of many incidences and how God had worked His miracles in the lives of these Haitians as well as their own lives. There was not a dry eye in the church.

Today as I was reading my Bible I thought about those ladies and what they saw and did as I read about Jesus touching and healing the lepers in Mark 1:40-42 ("Now a leper came to Him, imploring Him, kneeling down to Him and saying to Him, “If You are willing, You can make me clean.” Then Jesus, moved with compassion, stretched out His hand and touched him, and said to him, “I am willing; be cleansed.” As soon as He had spoken, immediately the leprosy left him, and he was cleansed")
We need to see people as Jesus sees people... regardless of where a person lives, what they look like, or their position in life the real value of a person is inside, not outside. Although a person’s body may be diseased or deformed, the person inside is no less valuable to God. No person is too disgusting for God’s touch. In a sense, we are all people with leprosy because we have all been deformed by the ugliness of sin. By sending his Son, Jesus, God has touched us, giving us the opportunity to be healed.
"The Lord does not see as man sees, for man looks at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart." 1 Samuel 16:7
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