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South Lake Serenity, originally uploaded by Steve Webel.

I took this photo about a week ago at a park near our home in Hunan, China. While I was taking the photos, a man was watching me and looking at each photo after I shot it. He commented to me, “The photo does not look the same as what my eyes are seeing.”

You see, in reality, the sky was very dark as the sun had been down for almost an hour at that point. By using a long exposure time when taking this photo, the camera was able to “see” the color in the sky that was there, but our eyes could not see.

Sometimes I think that is how God must be when he looks at us - He sees what is really there, but we cannot always see it. I desire to see people through God’s eyes so that I might look beyond what my eyes can see to what God sees This is sometimes hard to do, especially when you live in a ‘foreign’ country where aesthetics and hygene are a little bit different from what you are used to…

Isaiah 11:3-4
He will not judge by what he sees with his eyes, or decide by what he hears with his ears;
but with righteousness he will judge the needy, with justice he will give decisions for the poor of the earth. He will strike the earth with the rod of his mouth; with the breath of his lips he will slay the wicked.