Do You See What God Sees?

Scripture Verses that caught my attention today: Micah 4:6-7 In that day, says the LORD,
I will assemble the lame
and gather those who have been driven away,
and those whom I have afflicted.
7 The lame I will make the remnant,
and those who were cast off, a strong nation;
and the LORD will reign over them in Mount Zion
now and forevermore.

Observation: the Lord notices those precious ones who have been not just overlooked, but marginalized.

Application: I’m sitting here at an all-day championship swim meet where there are lots of people. The Lord loves us all, of course. Yet we tend to see each other differently. Although swim meets in particular (at least in my experience) have a pretty congenial crowd, we all make subtle judgments of one another—not necessarily intentionally—but subtly. For those with eyes that can see, the judgments probably begin with a conscious or subconscious note on general appearance and go on from there.

From Micah we learn that each time that the Lord cherishes those that others dismiss. Yes, the ones that humanity casts aside have great value in the Lord’s sight. In fact those are the very ones that the Lord has already gathered together through Christ. In him, as we learn elsewhere in Scripture, there is neither Jew nor Greek, male or female, slave or free.

It will be a quite a day when we can truly see each other that way too.

Prayer: Lord, thanks for the constant and necessary reminders of how much differently you see the people that we see. In Jesus’ name. Amen.

(Scripture Readings today included Micah 1, 2, 3, & 4 and Hebrews 6)