Sunday, November 24, 2013

Thought of the Week: Don't Judge a Book



A person may go to a bookstore and buy something solely based on the cover. There is no knowledge of the author or the content. The outside looks good. To quell the practice of buying books based solely on the outside cover some bookstores have begun wrapping books in brown paper and writing the genre on the outside. It keeps individuals from passing unnecessary judgment on otherwise good books. This should serve as a reminder that while someone can look one way on the outside the heart of that person could be completely different. Do not allow the color of one’s skin, the sex of a person, the family tree, physical stature, or otherwise cause you to place a unjust judgment on an individual. We are not the ones who automatically know what is inside. “But the Lord said unto Samuel, Look not on his countenance, or on the height of his stature; because I have refused him:for the Lord seeth not as man seeth;  for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the Lord looketh on the heart.” (1 Sam. 16:7).

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