Clean Your Glasses: Seeing Others As God Sees Them

Sermon Proper 21 Clean your glasses: Seeing others as God sees them. I heard something kind of funny last week about our eyesight changing. When I visited a family member, there was a cartoon clipping on the refrigerator that read, “I don’t stress about my eyesight failing as I get older. It’s God’s way of protecting me from shock as I walk past the mirror.”  Eyesight is something we sometimes need to protect us from the world, and apparently from ourselves. Jesus suggested that we have spiritual eyesight too. He put a spiritual spin on…