Wise As We Observe

"Behold, I am sending you out as sheep in the midst of wolves, so be wise as serpents and innocent as doves." - Matthew 10:16 ESV

"For your obedience is known to all, so that I rejoice over you, but I want you to be wise as to what is good and innocent as to what is evil." - Romans 16:19 ESV

Let's take everything we see and hear and run them through this filter of an 'innocence that realizes that there is deception in the world'.

"Hear, you deaf, and look, you blind, that you may see! Who is blind but my servant, or deaf as my messenger whom I send? Who is blind as my dedicated one, or blind as the servant of the LORD? He sees many things, but does not observe them; his ears are open, but he does not hear." - Isaiah 42:18-20 ESV

A deep passage... God had many messengers but Jesus is the ultimate example and He was blind and deaf to certain things... He had a single eye.. The religious people who opposed Him were 'blinded' but Jesus had 'blinders on'.

We can be like Jesus was and Is.

"Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:" - Philippians 2:5 KJV

"For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places." - Ephesians 6:12 ESV

I'm not saying we should shut everything out and live in a monastery. It is good to do that sometimes just to regain perspective but not always. We need to see what is happening around us but not be deceived by human goodness or human selfishness.

"Whoso rewardeth evil for good, evil shall not depart from his house." - Proverbs 17:13 KJV

We live in a state of innocent awareness that comes from having divine perspective. We look to see what God is thinking and we find that in the Bible.

"And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is [the book] of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works." - Revelation 20:12 KJV

Small and great... influencers and nobodys... all standing before God on an even plane... be careful who you choose as a hero and as a villian... they are just flesh and blood. We need to see beyond that and deal in compassion as innocent ones.

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