We don't evaluate people by what they have or how they look. We looked at the Messiah that way once and got it all wrong.
The Message
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So from now on we regard no one from a worldly point of view. Though we once regarded Christ in this way,
we do so no longer.
NIV
The writer for this devotion was paralleling Christian life with baseball or whatever. One main thing that stuck out was this:
Sacrifices - When the coach calls for you to bunt another person into a more prominent position, will you obediently lay one down? When you can bring in a run by hitting a fly ball for an out will you gladly do so?
Christ was a sacrificer. As a matter of fact, He alone was the ultimate sacrifice. He was killed because people did not believe Him to be the actual Son of Man. They viewed him as a lunatic and a mad man instead of our one and only Savior. They viewed Jesus as another worldly man and persecuted Him because He was blaspeming against God. Imagine of someone today claimed to be Jesus or the Messiah. Imagine the craziness it would stir up.
The main point of this verse is that we changed or need to change. Christ is not just a man, He is THE man. The Message's translations is kinda off but it brings out the message perfectly. We viewed our God Man as no one special and got it all wrong. We need to view everyone as a spiritual person. We need to see people for more than they are on the outside and see what they are made up of on the inside. Praise the Lord for opening up my eyes for others.
Amen.
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