It's All In How You Look At It

I Cor 13:12a "For now we see through a glass darkly: but then face to face..."

I received the following story the other day and thought you might enjoy it as well. It really hits home when it comes to the matter of how we look at others.

A young couple moved into a new neighborhood. The next morning while they are eating breakfast, the young Woman sees her neighbor hanging the wash outside.
"That laundry is not very clean", she said. "She doesn't know how to wash correctly. Perhaps she needs better laundry soap"
Her husband looked on, but remained silent. Every time her neighbor would hang her wash to dry, the Young woman would make the same comments.
About one month later, the woman was surprised to see a Nice clean wash on the line and said to her husband: "Look, she has learned how to wash correctly. I wonder who taught her this?"
The husband said, "I got up early this morning and Cleaned our windows."

The point is that most of the time it isn't what we see as much as it is how we look at things. Too often we view matters through our own somewhat distorted, preconceived opinions. Paul reminded the Church in Corinth that "now we see through a glass darkly". We may think we see everything as clear as a bell, but we don't. By the way, the subject of Paul's statement is that of Love. Godly love does allow us to see things more objectively. Or, see them as God sees them. I hope this will help us to be more understanding and less critical of others.