People, People, Everywhere

It is amazing to me when I see the people. It is amazing to me when I do not. Many Christians spend much of their lives in isolation–primarily interacting with other Christians. On those limited occasions when we do venture out of our comfortable Christian worlds, we find we have developed “people blindness.” The people are still there, but we do not see them as they are. We do not see souls, human beings whom God created and loves, people with real problems that can only be solved by Jesus–problems solved only by applying resources from the spiritual realm. We do not see and feel the lostness. We have learned to ignore the despair and need. The first step is seeing. Jesus said, “Lift up your eyes; the fields are white unto harvest.”
We live in the midst of harvest fields ready for reaping. We are surrounded (more and more) by people who are ready to find solutions to life’s pressing problems. Today, resolve to see people and souls, or at least one person who needs love and compassion, the presence of Jesus, a gentle nudge toward kingdom realities. See and act, and let God take care of the rest.