Becoming a BELIEVER in People

My friend, Danny Holman, once said that in a sermon and he was exactly right! Not surprisingly, "B" is for Believe.

Aside from the Bible, my all-time favorite book is the 132 page work, The People Skills Of Jesus by William Beausay, II.

One of the qualities he talks about is Jesus' amazing ability to see beyond the obvious when it came to people reading (when it came to anything really). He saw others not for what they SEEMED to be, not even for what they WERE but always for what He knew they could BECOME.

What a gift!

Jesus was great about seeing possibilities for others and inspiring them to turn those possibilities into probabilities...then into realities. 

That's what he did for Zaccheus when He called the hated tax collector down from the tree and spent the day with him.

It's what He did when He chose all 12 of the apostles. This group of fellows might not have seemed like much from the outside but Jesus chose them based on what was inside and, through this unlikely team, changed the world. 

God did it with Saul when he took the church's #1 enemy and turned him into the great apostle Paul.

In fact, every great character we read about in the Bible started out as someone in whom God saw something of value...something worth redeeming.

It's easy to have faith in people who have proven themselves. What is something is to believe in people BEFORE their success, often before they believe in themselves and sometimes even long enough until they can believe in themselves. 

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