Color Blind...

I was sitting in an airport checking emails as I waited in the terminal to board a plane. Sitting across from me was one very energetic little boy, I am guessing 5 or 6 years old, and I begin to pray that God would let me have any seat on the plane other than the one next to him! He was there with his mother who was having a conversation with an older lady sitting next to her. It was clear from the conversation that they were having that they did not know each other as it is also clear that if you have a conversation around me I am probably eves dropping. Anyway the conversation led to the little boy and the mother begin to explain how the little boy was partially color blind. She went on to explain that a couple of years before she had walked into a room where her son had separated a group of balls into smaller groups by color. She was puzzled that all of the reds were together, all the blues were together, but the greens and yellows were combined into one pile. After a few quick tests getting her son to try to separate the greens and yellows she realized that her son had a problem. He was unable to distinguish between the two colors.

I was taught growing that up that there a people in every church who are regular attenders but who don't really have a saving faith in Christ. I tend to treat these people differently. When they mess up I chalk it up to 'their just a goat." If one of my friends who I knew to be a christian does the same things I call him out on it and tell him where he is wrong. I am wrong to do this...

Scripture tells us that there are goats among us who think of themselves as sheep. Jesus says that He will one day separate these two groups. 'HE' will separate, not me, not you, and not us. We are 'color blind' when it comes to looking at the souls of men. We are like that little boy trying to separate the greens and the yellows except that we see some difference in the balls other than the color.

I am not saying that it is wrong to say that a person looks like a goat, I am saying that I think we are to treat a 'goat' just like we treat a 'sheep.' If someone professes faith in Christ that is good enough for us to treat them as a sheep. We sing hymns next to them, we pray with them, we study with them, and we love them like sheep because we are 'color blind' to their souls. I know I am guilty of treating these people that I think are goats differently, are you?