Go to a crowded place. Look around at the people. What do you see? Someone like me would perceive individuals going about their business. In my mind they seem consumed in there purpose (whatever that may be) living a perfectly contempt life. Of course this observation is made out of ignorance and can only remain true so long as the person in question is within the context of my vantage. What if, however, I were to look closer, past the material concealments? What if I were to look past the casual cloths, brushed back hair, plucked eyebrows, narrowed glance, tight genes...what is left when all else is stripped away. It is a man (or woman) who is consumed, not with what business he is about, but with a life only witnessed by himself and those closest to him. This life is filled with secrets, problems, and more then a slight lack of solutions. I will find that the casual cloths are actually wrinkled, the hair is brushed back as if in haste and fear, the eyebrows are slanted ever so slightly to indicate peril, anger, agitation, resentment and a need for help, the narrowed glance is cast by hollowed eyes formed by many sleepless nights, and the genes appear worn at the knees and torn ever so slightly near the calf. Suddenly, before my eyes is, not a casual shopper (or whatever their business may be), but a human being in need of serious help.
So, the next time you go to a crowed place, don't look around at mere people who are causally going about their business. Look, with a scrutinizing glance, at a crowd of people filled, to the point of exploding, with secrets and problems. They are in need of serious help. With this in mind, go up to any particular person and ask in what way they need prayer. "Sir, I probably can't empathize with your situation but I can sure sympathize with you...what exactly do you need prayer for?"
Don't look at this world through the eyes of a passive citizen, but through the eyes of an active Alien. You aren't here to live among fellow citizen’s of a corrupt world but to live among poor dejected sinners who need God so direly. Your Job is to give them what they really need: Jesus Christ.
