START SEEING YOUR MATE THROUGH YOUR SPIRITUAL EYES

We will be discussing the difficulty that we face with each other when we cannot see each other as God sees us. God tells us to look for the good in everyone. It is our responsibiltiy to treat people like we want to be treated and not the same way that they treat us. The hard times that we face when we go through adversity with each other, is that we continue to carry on together in the same manner, instead of one being able to express love as an example to the other. We must come to realize that we can no longer continue to operate in the spirit of hurt people hurt people, we have to take our persecutions as Christ did, without retaliation, without vengeance, and with the ability to continue to operate in love.  

1 PETER 3:13-18   If with heart and soul you’re doing good, do you think you can be stopped? Even if you suffer for it, you’re still better off. Don’t give the opposition a second thought. Through thick and thin, keep your hearts at attention, in adoration before Christ, your Master. Be ready to speak up and tell anyone who asks why you’re living the way you are, and always with the utmost courtesy. Keep a clear conscience before God so that when people throw mud at you, none of it will stick. They’ll end up realizing that they’re the ones who need a bath. It’s better to suffer for doing good, if that’s what God wants, than to be punished for doing bad. That’s what Christ did definitively: suffered because of others’ sins, the Righteous One for the unrighteous ones. He went through it all—was put to death and then made alive—to bring us to God.