Chad Lewis’ Blog

My view of people has been subtly changed within the last weeks. I have been seeing everyone as a broken person. God has used this new perspective to flood me with patience and care for the most obstinate persons that I have come in contact with lately.

I have seen the unruly youth as one crying out for attention so desperately that they are willing to interrupt a youth meeting. I have seen the impatient, mean man who honks at me as someone who has been offended greatly by someone else. I have seen them as broken people who are coping with their brokenness with anger, hate, distractions, sex, materialism and whatever else they can do to fill the void that resounds as deeply as the Grand Canyon.

What can fill that void? God alone can fill it, because just as a famous philosopher said, “Our hearts are restless until they find rest in Thee.”

One of God’s greatest acts of grace was to fill us with a void so great, that nothing on this planet could satisfy it. When we see people looting in the streets of New Orleans, we should not be shocked. We should not be shocked by the evil in the world, we should probably agree with Brother Lawrence and wonder how the world could not be more evil. We live in a fallen world with fallen people containing fallen desires. Who can save us from this wretched plight we live within? Thanks be to Jesus Christ who not only redeems us from our falleness, He gives us power to live and abide in fullness of life everyday.

So let us pray for God’s eyes as we see the lady who is checking out with 18 items in the 15 item express line and complaining about the wait. And let us pray that God would break our hearts for the broken.

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