Focus

We are very small people in this world. There are 7 billion of us all around the world and each one of us has our own separate fears, hopes, dreams, joys, and sorrows. We have the ability to affect each person around us whether or not that is positive or negative. That person that we affect can then go and affect someone in a positive or a negative manner. This has the potential to spread throughout the world.

Now think about it this way. You walk into a coffee shop. You see your friends in a relationship having coffee together, you see another friend working behind the counter and then there is a random montage of people drinking coffee and going about their every day lives. To you, these people are only the extras in your life. They are comparable to the fish in Spongebob Squarepants that yells "My leg!" You see him now and then but you don't really focus on his life or his story. You are the main character in your life.

Now think about it from their view. That person sees you walk into a coffee shop and you are only an extra to them in their daily life. They may never see you again or they may see you again in a couple of days. They face their own fears, trials, and heartaches, just as much as you face your own.

With this being established, throw in every other random circumstance to their lives. What is their view on life? Are they married? Do they have trust issues? Do they like sports or do they prefer books? Do they believe in God? Were they scarred as a child or an adult? With all of these different factors in play, those are the people we are trying to connect with as Christians. 

When Christ called us to follow Him. He did not call us to live lives of isolation. He called us to be salt and light to a world that did not believe in Him. So how do we even begin to connect with people that may have a completely different worldview than we do? 

The answer is actually pretty simple. We draw the focus off of our own lives. If there was a movie made about every person in the world, we would not be the main character. The whole of our being is designed to worship Christ. If we bring the focus off of ourselves and more onto God...then I think we might start making a change in this world, one person at a time.