The Cynic in all of us

Avoid cynical people. Examine your heart when you are one. To paraphrase Paul Miller and C.S. Lewis, those who think they can "see through" everything end up spending all their time looking at nothing. When all you ever see is an agenda, all you end up with is a bitter heart. Ironically then, the cynic's use of cynicism is a perverse lens with which to view the world. He looks through the colored lens for ulterior motives of the heart. Such terrain is not meant for our advances. The heart is God's territory. Spend your days in the presence of Jesus and His people who have an otherworldly hope. Consider His crimson stained glasses who, in perfect fellowship with His Father, "for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God." The exhortation then for us who are in fellowship with one another and The Father is that, "since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith." LOOK to Jesus! Use His eyes of mercy and grace and a world of joy will open up before you as you bathe in His love.

Picture courtesy of: Holes Kaleidoscope Glasses by Pam Tietze