The article declared that if you have a messy office, then you are a person who prefers to defer decisions. While I was reading it, I looked around my office at the mess surrounding me. Then I thought, “That is not true, not even a little bit.”

My office is currently messy because May is a hectic month. With Easter falling later in April and all the activities that I am juggling, I have had little time to maintain my office.

This has me thinking about how we view people. Often, we see a snapshot of their life and begin to draw conclusions that are simply not true. In fact, they might actually indicate that something in their life is unstable at the moment.

As Christians, we need to be extremely careful about the labels we put on people, the conclusions we draw, and the way we view others based on limited experience. Sure, many people do fit into nice little categories, but others do not. You will only know when you spend time getting to know them. Then, you might see another side of that person you never knew existed.