Who's Your Eye Doctor?

For while we were still weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly. For one will scarcely die for a righteous person—though perhaps for a good person one would dare even to die— but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. Since, therefore, we have now been justified by his blood, much more shall we be saved by him from the wrath of God. For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, now that we are reconciled, shall we be saved by his life. More than that, we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received reconciliation. (Romans 5:6-11 ESV)


I wear eye glasses. They auto shade when I go out in the sun. When I come inside after my glasses have transitioned to a shade, everything I look at is shaded. It takes a good 4 minutes or so until I am able to see things the way they actually are. 


What color are your glasses? We all have glasses whether we know it or not. We have a lens through which we perceive the world around us, the people around us, and ourselves. If you are unsure of the color of your glasses, let me ask you this...Where did you go to get your prescription? Did you go to human opinion, personal feelings, majority vote, american history, government education, sacred writing?


I used to go to probably a little of all of these eye doctors. But the doctor I sought to become a Christian was the Scriptures. This book alone gives us a true shade of lens to view the world, people and ourselves. 


Lets look at the above Scriptures to get our prescription. We learn we are...weak, ungodly, un-righteous, not good, sinners, under the wrath of God, an enemy of God, and un-reconciled. 


Is this the prescription you have of yourself? This was not my opinion of myself before I was a Christian. I lived a more sinful life than probably all of the people who might read this, yet where did I go to get my prescription? I went mostly to the opinion I had of myself, and I compared myself with a person who I thought was worse than me. Then that person looked to someone worse than him, and that person to someone lower. Until the standard to determine whether I am good or not is the worst and most vilest person in all of creation. Then we all look to him and say, "well at least I am better then him." "I must be good."


Do you see how twisted this is? The standard to determine whether I am good or not is basically the Devil. Where are we to look to determine our goodness? We need to look UP, not down. If all of us look up to Him who is good, to Jesus Christ, it will become evident whether I have a right to think of myself as good. 


God says I am weak, ungodly, un-righteous, not good, sinner, under the wrath of God, an enemy of God, and un-reconciled. 


If you look again at Romans 5:6-11, there is hope to be found for people like you and me. Go to the only Doctor who has the right prescription for our incredible need to see with clear lenses.