Time is such a fickle thing. Sometimes is goes by slow. Sometimes it flies. Sometimes it acts like a veil, making something good look bad. Something holy, evil. We don’t know the future. We can’t see the impact of a life from the perspective of eternity.
C.S. Lewis said this in his book, THE GREAT DIVORCE :
“Son,'he said,' ye cannot in your present state understand eternity...That is what mortals misunderstand. They say of some temporal suffering, "No future bliss can make up for it," not knowing that Heaven, once attained, will work backwards and turn even that agony into a glory. And of some sinful pleasure they say "Let me have but this and I'll take the consequences": little dreaming how damnation will spread back and back into their past and contaminate the pleasure of the sin. Both processes begin even before death. The good man's past begins to change so that his forgiven sins and remembered sorrows take on the quality of Heaven: the bad man's past already conforms to his badness and is filled only with dreariness. And that is why...the Blessed will say "We have never lived anywhere except in Heaven, : and the Lost, "We were always in Hell." And both will speak truly.”
I’m always enthralled by the concept that when we do good (or bad) for someone on the street or in our lives, that Christ sees it as if we did it to or for himself.
Thinking more on that subject, one of the things I do to almost anyone I consciously encounter, is judge them. I consider myself a pretty forgiving person, and so I’d like to think I go easy on people when I judge them, but I judge them, nonetheless. I like their clothes, or their demeanor, or not. I marvel at someone’s intellect or cleverness.. or not. I evaluate how fast they served me.. or not.
Sometimes I love them.. or at least the thought occurs to me (thanks to the Holy Spirit). Other times, I mindlessly pass by my opportunities to love. I miss the chance to assign value to people. I miss the opportunity to see, what God sees. Jesus.
The song is entitled, YOU SEE JESUS. Joel Lane, sang the vocal for this song demo. You can listen to it here.
You See Jesus
I see a hungry child who has nothing to eat
A cycle of poverty that will repeat
I see a dependency that’s just begun.
But, You see Jesus. You see your Son.
I see a rebellious man who curses your name
Convicted and guilty one who takes no blame
I see a fugitive upon the run
You see Jesus. You see your son.
Light from darkness. Old made new.
Flawed and ugly, beautiful to You
I see my apathy towards the oppressed
I’m weakened by atrophy and selfishness
How jaded and cynical I have become
But you see Jesus. You see your Son.
You see Jesus. You see your Son
You see the purity of a holy one
All my unrighteousness has come undone
You see Jesus. You see your Son
You see Jesus. You see your Son
You see the purity of THE holy one
All the unrighteousness has come undone
You see Jesus. You see your Son
You see Jesus. You see your Son
You see Jesus. You see your Son
