Jesus Changes How We See Others

From now on, therefore, we regard no one according to the flesh.

2 Corinthians 5:16

The things that make us different according to the flesh, are overwhelmed by the new life that we share in the body of Christ.

In the flesh, we lived for ourselves, and our death would mean passing into condemnation. But Jesus died to change all that. Who we are in the flesh died with Him, through His atoning death on the cross. Who we are in Christ is born from Him, through His resurrection life.

For as many of you as were baptised into Christ have put on Christ. There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus. (Gal. 3:27–28)

What makes us different falls away in the light of Christ. We are new creations, which includes men and women of every race, people of various appearance and age, people of every background and experience, people doing every kind of work with every level of ability brought into peace with God through the same Saviour, submitting our different lives to the same Lord.

A change in how you see Jesus brings a change in how you see others. That means we do not see each other through the lens of who we are by nature and the ten things that make us different, but of who we are by grace and the redeeming work of Christ that makes us one.

How is Jesus changing the way you see other people?