When you look at other people lives what do you see?
Do you see their failures, sins, mistakes, their past, their short comings, & that’s all you can see?
I was thinking about what JESUS saw when he looked at the Peter after he denied him three times, & went back fishing for fish after JESUS told him he was going to be a fisher of men?
But JESUS gave Peter the keys to the kingdom of GOD, & made Peter the leader of his church, despite Peter’s failures, shortcoming’s, sins, mistakes, & his past!
People, what was JESUS thinking about & seeing when he saw the women at the well who had five husbands, & the man she was with was not her husband, but she left all everything, & went to preached JESUS in the city, & caused the whole city to believe in JESUS (JOHN 4:1-42)!
People, what was GOD seeing & thinking when he called Jonah to be a prophet, & told Jonah to go to Nineveh, & prophecy to a rebellious people, but Jonah rebelled against GOD himself, & then Jonah got in a boat to run from GOD!
But yet, GOD chose this rebellious prophet named Jonah to be his prophet, & to do his will, knowing Jonah was just as rebellious as the people GOD was sending him to prophesy to!
People, what was JESUS thinking & seeing when he chose a man like Paul to be his apostle, & to write 14 books of the bible, knowing Paul was a persecuting his church, murdering his disciples and anyone who followed JESUS, but JESUS called Paul to be one of his greatest apostles?
People, what was GOD seeing & thinking when he chose a stammering tongue murderer like Moses to deliver his people from slavery, and to be one GOD’S greatest prophets!
What was GOD seeing & thinking when he chose David to be his anointed king, knowing King David was going to commit murder, adultery, fornication, & deception against him, but yet GOD said, David was a man after his own heart, & GOD anointed him king, & ordained him to be his great anointed king!
People, I guess JESUS was thinking GOD’S ways are not our ways, & his thoughts are not our thoughts!………….lol!
(Isaiah 55:6-9) You seek the lord while he may be found, you call upon him while he is near:
Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the lord, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our GOD, for he will abundantly pardon you.
For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, says the lord.
For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.
(1 Corinthians 1:26-29) For you see your calling, brethren, how that not many wise men after the flesh are called, not many mighty are called, not many noble are called:
But GOD has chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and GOD has chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty;
And base lowly things of the world, and things which are despised, GOD has chosen, yes, and things which are not, to bring to nothing the things that are:
That no flesh should glory in GOD’S presence.
So now the question remains, what do you see when you look at the lives of other people?
I know I want to be like JESUS to see people like JESUS see’s people, & I don’t want to be like no one else!
People, I don’t care about what anyone else says about JESUS, what anyone else knows about JESUS, or what anyone else thinks about JESUS, because I know JESUS for myself!
JESUS is the hope of GOD given to a dying world, & if you believe in JESUS, then you should have the same hope in you for all people!~
Hope!~
Hope is almost always found in the most destitute places!
Hope is sometimes seen on the most hurtful faces!
Beneath the tear soaked eyes!
Beneath the, I’m alright lies!
In between the midnight cries!
When the relationship dies!
Hope in my life support, my second wind, & the glimmer seen in my eyes!
Beneath all the lies, pain, & the hurt!
Hope is in me, yet still at work!
Telling me to keep faith alive!~
A psalm of hope, “by Reese Kemp!”
People, I don’t care if you’re a murderer, drug dealer, whore monger, thug, gangbanger, thief, pimp, prostitute, Muslim, atheist, stripper, rapist, child molester, homosexual, you been sexually abused, abused, molested, poor, rich, & you been in & out of the penitentiary all your life, as long as you still have life in you, then there is hope for you!~
People, I been to jail for murder, I been charged with murder, I been to the penitentiary numerous times, I am an ex drug dealer, gangster disciple, thug, whoremonger, & a career criminal, but I am also the hope for the hopeless, because I believe in JESUS/HOPE!~
(1 CORINTHIANS 4:1-5) Let a man so account of us, as of the ministers of CHRIST JESUS, and stewards of the mysteries of GOD.
Moreover it is required in stewards, that a man be found faithful.
But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged of you, or of man’s judgment: yes, I do not judge my own self.
For I know nothing by myself; yet am I not hereby justified: but he that judges me is the Lord.
Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord comes, who both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and will make manifest the counsels of the hearts: and then shall every man have praise of GOD.
(JOHN 7:24) JESUS SAYS, Judge not according to the appearance, but judge righteous judgment.
(2 CORINTHIANS 10:7) Do you look on things after the outward appearance?
If any man trust to himself that he belongs to CHRIST JESUS, let him of himself think this again, that, as he is CHRIST’S, even so do we belong to CHRIST JESUS.
(1 SAMUEL 16:7) But the Lord said unto Samuel, do not Look on his countenance, or on the height of his stature; because I have refused him: for the Lord does not see as man sees; for man looks on the outward appearance, but the Lord looks on the heart.
People, Christians, Jews, Muslims, church folks, religious folks, & religious leaders, if you’re judging people for where they are presently at in life, how they look, how they act, & by what you see, then you look like a fool without hope, because how can you have the hope of GOD in you when you don’t have hope for other people?
(ROMANS 9:15-26) For GOD said to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy on, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion on.
So then it is not of him that wills, nor of him that runs, but of GOD that shows mercy.
For the scripture said unto Pharaoh, Even for this same purpose have I raised you up, that I might shew my power in you, and that my name might be declared throughout all the earth.
Therefore hath he mercy on whom he will have mercy, and whom he will he hardens.
You will say then unto me, Why does the GOD yet find fault?
For who has resisted his will?
Nay but, O man, who are you that replies against GOD?
Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why have you made me like this?
Has not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour?
What if GOD, willing to show his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction:
And that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he had afore prepared unto glory,
Even us, whom he has called, not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles?
As he said also in Hosea, I will call them my people, which were not my people; and her beloved, which was not beloved.
And it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said unto them, you are not my people; there shall they be called the children of the living GOD.
(HOSEA 6:6) For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of GOD more than your burnt offerings.
(MATTHEW 9:10-13) JESUS SAYS, And it came to pass, as JESUS sat at meat in the house, behold, many publicans and sinners came and sat down with JESUS and his disciples.
And when the Pharisees saw it, they said unto JESUS disciples, Why does your Master eat with tax collectors and sinners?
But when JESUS heard that, he said unto them, they that be whole do not need a physician, but they that are sick do.
But you go and learn what that means, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice: for I am not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.
Christians, Jews, church folks, religious folks, & religious leaders, there is no way you can call yourself a servant of JESUS CHRIST or a true follower of JESUS CHRIST, & you hate Muslims, and people who are different from you!
There is no way you can call yourself a servant of JESUS CHRIST or a follower of JESUS CHRIST, but you only have hope for people who believe what you believe, & are just like you!
People, if you are a true servant of JESUS CHRIST, & a true follower of JESUS CHRIST, then you should have hope for all people, whether those people are Muslims, Jews, Catholics, Hebrew Israelites, Hindus, moors, atheists, unbelievers, sinners, homosexuals, murderers, drug dealers, whore mongers, thugs, gangbangers, thieves, pimps, prostitutes, strippers, rapist’s, child molesters, the sexually abused, abused, molested, poor, rich, & those who been in & out of the penitentiary all their lives, because as long as they still have life in them, then there is still hope for them!~
But people, if you don’t have hope, mercy, & grace for other people, then how do you expect GOD or people to have mercy, grace, & hope for you, because we reap exactly what we sow in GOD’S kingdom!~
“People, get to know JESUS for your own self, because only real love can see the best in you beyond where you are currently at in life!”
REAL LOVE, THE JESUS KIND OF LOVE, IS IT REALLY IN YOU?~
(JOHN 14:21) JESUS SAYS, He that has my words, and keeps them, he it is that loves me: and he that loves me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.
(JOHN 14:23) JESUS SAYS, If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our home with him.
He that does not love me does not keep my sayings: and the word which you hear is not mine, but the Father’s which sent me.