Time to Clean our Spiritual Glasses

If you’re like me, you can easily think of brothers and sisters in Christ who you are reasonably sure won’t make it spiritually. Their life is a mess. They can’t seem to get things together. Maybe you’ve counseled them before, and here they are—back in the same miserable situation. You almost want to give up on them.

I have some good news and bad news for you. Which would you like first? The bad news? Your (our) estimation of God isn’t big enough, and we may not know Him as well as we think we do.

The good news? God never gives up on a person, so there is hope for anyone. Hold off on judging your brother or sister in Christ. Soak up a bit of the Savior below and capture His spirit of love, mercy and grace for that person you just thought of (verse references are at the end):

Who art thou that judgest another man’s servant? To his own master he standeth or falleth. Yea, he shall be holden up: for God is able to make him stand. He giveth power to the faint; and to them that have no might he increaseth strength. Though he fall, he shall not be utterly cast down: for the LORD upholdeth him with his hand.

Let not him that eateth despise him that eateth not; and let not him which eateth not judge him that eateth: for God hath received him. Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them.

And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand. My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father’s hand. I and my Father are one.

For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy.

Hold up my goings in thy paths, that my footsteps slip not.

(Rom. 14:4; Isa. 40:29; Psa. 37:24; Rom 14:3; Heb. 7:25; John 10:28-30; Rom. 8:38-29; Jude 1:24; Psa. 17:5)