Let's View People Differently

"Let's view people differently. Blemished, perhaps. Unfinished, for certain. Yet once rescued and restored, we may shed light, like the two stained-glass windows in my office. My brother found them on a junkyard heap. Some church had discarded them. A handy carpenter reclaimed them. He painted the chipped wood, repaired the worn frame, sealed the cracks in the colored glass. They're not perfect. But if suspended where the sun passes through, they cascade multicolored light into the room.

"The apostle Paul wrote, 'For he has rescued us from the dominion of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of the Son he loves....' (Colossians 1:13). You and I are going to come across some discarded people. Tossed out. Sometimes by a church. And we get to choose. Neglect or rescue? Label them or love them? We know Jesus' choice. Just look at what he did with us!

~ By Max Lucado

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