Thursday, May 8, 2008

Romper Room Update

A while back, I posted about an experiment our High School small group was conducting, trying to see others as Jesus sees them, and then treating them accordingly. Recently, we took a poll to see how the guys are doing with this project, and candidly, the results were mixed... seems it's pretty hard to do this on a consistent basis. My take is that the enemy plants lots of lies about the difficulty and how hard it is to be successful. And the battle continues!


In March, we modified the challenge to the group: We moved from seeing others as Jesus sees them to seeing OURSELVES as Jesus sees us... and then treating ourselves accordingly. This seems to be a MUCH harder task. It seems we can be more forgiving, tolerant, patient, and objective with others... not so ourselves. It seems we know too much about ourselves to forgive, to understand, to accept... we forget that God knows us even better, and yet He forgives us... he sacrificed His Son on our behalf... we are redeemed and forgiven. How sad... what a travesty that we can't see ourselves as He does. I've renewed my chalenge to look for Jesus in the mirror in the morning; again with mixed (or unsuccessful) results. My counsel, quoting one of my favorite characters (whose image occupies a place of significance on this page), "Look... haaarder!"

3 comments:

Stephanie said...

That is a difficult task. I have trouble doing that myself. Even when someone is holding that mirror up and shouting what God sees at me...I struggle. I hope your boys are more successful.

Caitlin said...

I'm really excited about the fact that you're posting...just in case you were wondering...

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Chris said...

oh yes, nice Danny Bridgens quote btw...

I think I know but don't understand how Jesus sees me. I think I might have posted about this once before... looking in the mirror and not recognizing yourself. I've done that a few times lately.