There's this story I've always loved to share: Daughter is sick and mom had just locked the car key inside the car. As time passed by, mommy becomes panicky. Finally she beckoned “God, please send someone to help me.” Along came this guy, he took one look at the locked car, twitched here and there, got one pointed object, inserted it inside the hole and viola! the car door opened. The mother amazed asked the guy how he did it, the man answered “Ma'am, I just got out of prison today for car theft.” Get my point? Sometimes God has this habit of putting us in a difficult situation then sending an unlikely angel to bail us out of trouble. I bet next time this mother heard of a car thief, she won't be as outspoken and judgmental as before. After all it was a car thief who was able to save their daughter from that tight bind.
In our everyday life, we meet people from all walks of life. Some we like, some we don't, but because we are so focused on liking or disliking them, we always end up missing a lot. Liking someone means we expect them to help us, be nice to us and not liking them means harming us, hurting us and giving us all sorts of problems. But lots of times because of that we blocked ourselves from the source, we fail to realize that both parties are just as capable of being there for us. All it takes is just be open and non-judgmental.
Example: Here's this girl, who is loud-mouthed, brash and hot-tempered. Sometimes, she even vent her ire on us. We hate her guts, we hate the way she yells at people, yet one time when we were pressed to the wall by a bully, she came through defending us because it's exactly that characteristic which was needed at that situation. So you see, that negative trait she had turned out to have a positive effect on us.
This will go on and on. A sweet-talking guy might be “all-talk-no-action”, but for a person who is on the verge of committing suicide or for a person who is depressed and down-on-the-dumps, he's just what the doctor ordered at that precise moment because his glib tongue offers one magical thing: HOPE. At least for the time being that is normally what a depressed guy needs to sway them from jumping off buildings or slashing their wrist. This same sweet-talker who will make you laugh and smile when you feel like crying and pounding your head on the wall, when your morale is at its lowest.
This racketeer preacher whom might have cheated many people of their money, but who unmindfully had shared God's words to people, made believers out of some people and turned their lives around.
The one thing that obstructs us from true blessing is our being judgmental. Take that away from our system and let's begin to see what a beautiful world we really live in.
