Seeing others through Love’s eyes

Love is a fruit of the spirit as described in Gal.5, but the bible also describes God as Love. Love then is the core essence of our Christian faith. In other words, you can’t get it right as a Christian if you haven’t figured out your love walk. One key element of the manifestation of Love is in the way you see others. You can choose to see people through Love’s eyes or otherwise. When you fail to see people through Love’s eyes, it is easy to know that your faith needs a check.

Jesus said in Matt.7:5 that it takes a log in your eyes for you to notice a spec in your brother’s eyes; what a statement! In other words, if you always find fault with others, or always see their downside only, it is because there is a bigger issue in your own life crying for attention. It is just a simple case of a log compared to a spec. This is rather a simple lesson of life, but it is one of the most important subject and key to a fulfilled life.

Bro Hagin narrated an experience that happened while he was working with Bro Smith before World War II, and the story really got me rethinking about my love walk. He recalled that there was a fellow in their town at that time, who was a war veteran, this fellow would often suffer spells where he would go crazy and start cutting people with a knife. The whole town knew about his condition. One Saturday night, the chief of police was called over to come get this fellow because none of the other police men could handle him. When the police chief arrived, the man wouldn’t put his knife away, it seemed he really just wanted to die. He told the police chief “Either I am going to cut your throat, or you are going to kill me – one of the two.” He lunged at the chief with the knife leaving him no choice but to shoot him and he died. The next day, everyone was talking about the news of his death, and the whole town sighed in relief. People said many things, but as Bro Hagin observed, Bro Smith would not say anything about it. When everyone got through talking about the dead man, Bro Smith said “one thing I noticed – he surely had pretty eyes.” Bro Hagin mentioned that when Bro Smith said that, everyone just hushed and walked away. Bro Smith had learned the secret of keeping his tongue and walking in love towards others.

Years later, when he was about ninety years, Bro Smith would tell Bro Hagin that he still had all his teeth without a single filling and had lived in divine health for forty years. You definitely can connect this comment from Bro Smith to his walking in love towards others.

Something you will observe in that story is that, you will always have the opportunity to talk down about others just as everyone else had the opportunity to talk down about the fellow, but like Bro Smith you must choose to take the high way of walking in love.

I am not in any way suggesting that this is a very easy thing to do. As a matter of fact, you often have to do it by faith because if you simply look at people the way they are, and not the way they could be by the transforming power of God, then you may find it difficult to walk in love towards them.

In II Cor.5:16, the Apostle Paul said we no longer view men from a worldly point of view, rather we are now constrained to see others through Love’s eyes. It means that you should now begin to see people as God sees them.

I encourage you today, to make a quality decision today to begin to see others through Love’s eyes. Yes, some people may look like they don’t even deserve it, and some people will even try to take advantage of your love walk, but I assure you that ultimately it will be for your good.