I have two pear trees. One produces lovely fruit. The other I can only describe as ugly. This year, for the first time, the pears looked … still ugly, but larger. I took one, cut it open and tasted it. To my amazement it was yummy. I have canned about eight jars of them. Wonders never cease.
It got me thinking. We often pre-judge many things by how they appear and I wonder if we might be shortchanging them and ourselves by not daring to look beyond appearance.

In the book of James, God says not be a respecter of persons. If someone has fancy clothes and another looks scruffy we are to treat them the same. That’s how God treats us and if we say we are His, we are to be like Him.
When we do wrong, I am sure we look unsightly, but thankfully, He looks beyond our failures to what He is helping us to become. Grace.
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