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A New Prescription

"I like to believe that everyone has their moment, the moment that God made them for."

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A New Prescription
Fernanda Lima

Expectations are a bit ridiculous, Don't you think so?

Recently, my expectations for people around me haven't been met. I say this as if I have any say in who people should be or act like. But anyway, it can feel like people aren't being who I need them to be.

This whole concept and feeling I have is downright ridiculous simply because I have no right to look at anyone in a way that puts them below me. And if we are being honest here, if I am needing to find encouragement and security in other people, isn't there just something wrong with me?

What if I were to take off the glasses that the world gave me, and replace them with a brand new prescription. The prescription that God uses. He sees us as we are, and as what we could be. He sees every flaw, yet he sees every ounce of potential. This should count for something.

If I were to take off my glasses, and try out this new prescription, what would change? Would I possibly be more kind? More secure? More fulfilled? I think I would. I don't have the right, the capacity to judge anyone.

Imagine if God judged me in the same way as humans judge each other. I read something once that said, "We are all just walking each other home." I don't have to like people, but I do have to love them. Something that comes with being a Christian, is putting on the new prescription. Seeing people as what they could be because people matter. People are oh so important.

Putting on God's lens allows us to see the significance of people in the world, and the everyday people we pass everyday. I like to believe that everyone has their moment that God made them for. Like God made me and you because of this one moment where you would be the hands and feet of God, and change someone's life forever. I know that there are people that were there when I was saved, and that could have been their moment. The moment that God made them for, because He saw their potential.

If we could just see people for the people they could be, for the moment they could be a part of. If we could just try out a new type of prescription.

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