Glasses

You've heard of people who view life through "rose-colored glasses;" they see a good side in every event, often in a way that looks naive or namby-pambyish to other people. Often people claim to be wearing no glasses of their own, viewing life fully aware and logically. Not true. Everyone wears glasses of one sort or another. Everyone has some sort of worldview, whether it assumes that the world is utterly meaningless, or declares with the moral relativists that there are no absolute truths, or sees the world as a struggle based on race or social class or economics, or sees the world as a competition in which the winner accumulates the most stuff, or believes that the world as a living and evolving organism in which we are all components, or feels that all our problems would be solved if we only had the right thinking or the right politics, and on and on and on.

Christians need to openly declare which glasses we wear. Not Democratic, not Republican. Not black, not white. Not American, not European. Not rich, not poor. Not educated, not uneducated. Not Alabama, not Auburn. Not old, not young. Not liberal, not fundamentalist. Not Baptist, not Catholic. Not anarchist, not fascist. Not ..., not ....

The "glasses" that we as Christians must wear are the leading of the indwelling Holy Spirit who will help us to view everything through the eyes of Christ. Remember that for Christians "to live is Christ" (Philippians 1:21) and that we have the Mind of Christ (1 Corinthians 2:16).

An excellent article about the Mind of Christ can be found at http://www.pbc.org/files/messages/4807/3577.html