Things are not always what they seem...

I have been so impressed with that thought lately, that men look on the outward appearance, but God looks at the heart. Consider the Matthew Henry commentary on 2 Corinthians 10:7. In my estimation it's talking about the church and how we should labor with one another and be considerate of one another. The poor, the uneducated, the mentally challenged, those who are weak in faith, and I would even say those who may have been "overtaken in a fault" we are to treat with kindness and love. I guess my thought is more of a spinoff from my other post, because after thinking about it I realized that I need the mind of Christ in so many ways. There are so many people being discriminated against and I can't have the victim's mindset always thinking about myself and how I'm being "mistreated" and be blind to my own possibilities of showing partiality. Partiality to whom? The person who dresses the nicest, or has the nicest home or car, or who seems to be most spiritual or popular. You get my drift. Antiways...that's just my thought.

2 Corinthians 10:7 KJV

Do ye look on things after the outward appearance? if any man trust to himself that he is Christ's, let him of himself think this again, that, as he is Christ's, even so are we Christ's.

2 Corinthians 10:7 NIV

7You are looking only on the surface of things. If anyone is confident that he belongs to Christ, he should consider again that we belong to Christ just as much as he.

His relation to Christ: If any man trust to himself that he is Christ's, even so are we Christ's, v. 7. It would seem by this that Paul's adversaries boasted of their relation to Christ as his ministers and servants. Now the apostle reasons thus with the Corinthians: "Suppose it to be so, allowing what they say to be true (and let us observe that, in fair arguing, we should allow all that may be reasonably granted, and should not think it impossible but those who differ from us very much may yet belong to Christ, as well as we), allowing them," might the apostle say, "what they boast of, yet they ought also to allow this to us, that we also are Christ's." Note, 1. We must not, by the most charitable allowances we make to others who differ from us, cut ourselves off from Christ, nor deny our relation to him. For, 2. There is room in Christ for many; and those who differ much from one another may yet be one in him. It would help to heal the differences that are among us if we would remember that, how confident soever we may be that we belong to Christ, yet, at the same time, we must allow that those who differ from us may belong to Christ too, and therefore should be treated accordingly. We must not think that we are the people, and that none belong to Christ but ourselves. This we may plead for ourselves, against those who judge us and despise us that, how weak soever we are, yet, as they are Christ's, so are we: we profess the same faith, we walk by the same rule, we build upon the same foundation, and hope for the same inheritance.