ROSE COLORED GLASSES

ROSE COLORED GLASSES

Looking back to my early christian life, just after I was saved, I can see that I wore “rose colored glasses”. The definition of rose colored glasses is to have an optimistic outlook. Be positive, see the cup half full not half empty.

  Every christian should wear them. They make you look at everything and everyone one in a different light.Kind of like innocent until proven guilty. They help us overlook remarks and actions of others that could hurt us and make us bitter. Oh the joys of being a babe in Christ. What you don’t know doesn’t hurt you is a good way to think about it.(Disclaimer-This does not mean we overlook harmful or dangerous situations.) Everyone’s motives are pure and nobody gets hurt. Everyone means well and is honest-or so the glasses make you think so.

 But shouldn’t we give everyone the benefit of the doubt? We are so ready to accuse and tear down each other. We assume the worst and stick with it! We as Christians are all “sinners saved by grace”. We act worse than the world sometimes and are crueler than they are. Maybe today if we wore those Rose Colored Glasses we would be a better person.

 We all have faults, we are human,we make mistakes. Can we forgive and forget? With the attitude of the glasses we can. God gives us grace and mercy unlimited! Maybe if we put on the glasses we could have some unconditional love. We could overlook being overlooked, or not spoken to, or not included. We are so childish at times. Life is hard at times, but our kind attitude can make a difference.

 Put on the rose colored glasses. Don’t be like the world. We are pilgrims passing through, we are not of this land.This is not to say we should overlook  sin. Sin has to be addressed and dealt with.

We don’t hold a grudge when our toddler hits us, interrupts, ruins our plans, and is down right mean and rude. We have compassion and love them still. It is not so easy to do with adults that treat us that way. But with God all things are possible. The (our attitude) glasses bring back our kindness,forgiveness,compassion,honesty, and gentleness. Choose to wear yours!

If you don't know for sure that you will go to Heaven when you die, please read my last blog: My Jesus I Love Thee.