Picture from a postcard of Niagara Falls when it froze over in 1938.  The power of the falls is lost in this frozen state.  Wrong time to judge these powerful falls.

Don't Judge A Book By It's Cover - By Frances M. McCrory-Meservy

I was having a Bible study with some ladies in CWG when a guy pulled up in a beat up truck and got out to come and knock on my door. 

 
He had long hair pulled back in a ponytail and tattoos all over the place.  He had on jeans with holes in the knees and a t shirt with the arms tore off.  There were a few other rag tag types in the truck. 
 
One of the ladies wanted to call the police and another started to lock the door. 
 
I had to stop them because he was a man from our church stopping by to pick up a Sunday school book.  He's a roofer by trade.
 
Every time I see someone who doesn't look quite like we would expect to be trustworthy, I remember that day when Ron came to the door looking his worse and all sweaty from working in the sun on a roof all day.

2 Cor 10:7 Do you look at things according to the outward appearance? If anyone is convinced in himself that he is Christ's, let him again consider this in himself, that just as he is Christ's, even so we are Christ's.

Mat 7:1-5 "Judge not, that you be not judged. "For with what judgment you judge, you will be judged; and with the measure you use, it will be measured back to you. "And why do you look at the speck in your brother's eye, but do not consider the plank in your own eye? "Or how can you say to your brother, 'Let me remove the speck from your eye'; and look, a plank is in your own eye? "Hypocrite! First remove the plank from your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother's eye.

Luke 6:37-38 "Judge not, and you shall not be judged. Condemn not, and you shall not be condemned. Forgive, and you will be forgiven. "Give, and it will be given to you: good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over will be put into your bosom. For with the same measure that you use, it will be measured back to you."
 

Niagara Falls, Canada 1996 in it's powerful state.

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