Open your eyes

We cannot reach what we cannot see...

John 4:34-35

New International Version

34 “My food,” said Jesus, “is to do the will of him who sent me and to finish his work. 35 Don’t you have a saying, ‘It’s still four months until harvest’? I tell you, open your eyes and look at the fields! They are ripe for harvest.

If God answered your prayers, would it change the world or just you?  

1. We must open our eyes to where other people are.  

We need to connect before we correct.  

Read John 4:27-35

2.  We must open our eyes to who they are.  

We don't have to be like them, but we do have to like them.  

Read Matthew 9:36

3.  We must open our eyes to what they need.    

Truth without grace is mean.  Grace without truth is meaningless.   

Read John 1:14, Luke 19.

 

To change our world, we need to show people the same kind of love God showed us which is unconditional love.

 

 

If we saw God the right way, we'd want to know Him.

 

1.  Some people see God like a locked gate.  

Like He is a God that can't be reached.

 

2.  Some people see God like a garbage can.  

Like He has just thrown them away.

 

3.  Some people see God like an endless ladder.  

Like He always requires more of them than they can give. 

 

4.  We must see God like a free gift. 

That's the right view of God.