How do you see the world?

How you see the world impacts how you react to it. I know people who are afraid of people that they don't know. As a result, they don't talk to other people, they avoid them at all cost. I know other people who don't want to feel different, so they morph themselves into the same time of behavior as those around them. I know people who are "rugged individualists" who want people to know that they are different, and don't really care what anyone else things about them.

As Christians, we should view the world in one way... they way that Jesus viewed the world.

After this the Lord appointed seventy-two others and sent them ahead of him, two by two, into every town and place where he himself was about to go. And he said to them, "The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few. Therefore pray earnestly to the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into his harvest." Luke 10:1-2

Jesus viewed the world a a place where there are a lot of people that need to hear about who Jesus is before He can show Himself to them. He wants us to pray that God sends people to do this work.

Sometimes we view the world such that we expect others to do the "harvesting", but in reality, the call is for all of us to make disciples.

And Jesus came and said to them, "All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age." Matt:28:18-20

We know that Jesus was not just talking to just His 11 disciples, if that were true, no new disciples would have been made. The calling of a disciple, or follower of Jesus is to make disciples!

Continue steadfastly in prayer, being watchful in it with thanksgiving. At the same time, pray also for us, that God may open to us a door for the word, to declare the mystery of Christ, on account of which I am in pison - that I make it clear, which is how I ought to speak. Walk in wisdom toward outsiders, making the best use of the time. Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how you ought to answer each person. Col 4:2-6

Take a moment and mediate on what God is saying in Colossians 4 - "Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how you ought to answer each person." - It sounds like the expectation is that we live our lives in such a way that people will want to know what the difference is, and we should be ready to tell them the gospel!

This week, let us struggle to take a look at the world through the same lens that Jesus did - a lens that clearly shows us that the world is in need of a Savior, with whom we have an intimate relationship.