"Rose Colored Glasses"

“Rose colored glasses,” or the eyes of Jesus, you decide?  I had someone mention a few days ago that I might just be looking at the world, and more specifically, the body of Christ through what he called “rose colored glasses.”  First off that phrase has always thrown me off a little bit, because I still see all the marvelous colors God gave us to enjoy and even the shades of grey and black that ooze from those whose spirit lacks that of Christ.  I am not a dog, I see in full spectrum color, but there is a difference in him and me, I suppose, and that is the vision of and mindset of Christ.

I don’t see the world in the same way most do, I have been transformed.  I now see things through the eyes of Christ.  Paul so clearly tells the brothers and sisters in Rome how they should live.  “I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service. ² And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.”  It seems to me that when we are living our lives with the mercies of God in the forefront of our being that we would see things a little different.  I mean Paul said to be “transformed by the renewing of your mind”.  If anything it appears to me that would include looking at things in a different way.  That word “transformed” in the Greek is “metamorphoo”.  It is where we get the English word metamorphosis thus meaning a transfiguration.  It is the same word used during Jesus’ transfiguration.  It is a total change, including how we look at the world.  Paul explains a little more in 2 Corinthians 5:17, “Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.”

Once again in Philippians 2:5-8 Paul explains how we are to behave.  “Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus, ⁶ who, being in the form of God, did not consider it robbery to be equal with God, ⁷ but made Himself of no reputation, taking the form of a bondservant, and coming in the likeness of men. ⁸ And being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself and became obedient to the point of death, even the death of the cross.”  “Have this mind in you which was also in Christ.”  Rose colored glasses, no.  Christ-like view of the world, yes.  I seek to live my life in a way to see the needs of others and to find the best, not fault in my brothers and sisters in Christ.  I pray the one who is looking at the world through his jaded glasses will take them off, be transformed and see the wonders that God has given us in the body of Christ, His Church, not only in this life, but the glories in the life to come.

God Bless!