“Your eyes can deceive you, don’t trust them.”
With these words, Obi-Wan answers Luke’s skeptical reply to Obi-Wan’s earlier instruction to try and defend himself from the remote’s bolts.
We are like Luke because we often trust our eyes too much. He feared that he could not fight because the blast shield was down.
Often we are unable to get past the optics of a situation.
We judge a person based on their appearance and how they present themselves.
Like us, the prophet Samuel made that mistake. He did so when he was looking to anoint Israel’s next king, a son of Jesse (1 Samuel 16:6). Samuel assumed the eldest brother was to he was to anoint as the future king.
The LORD, however, had not chosen him.
“But the LORD said to Samuel, ‘Do not look on his appearance or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him. For the LORD sees not as man sees: man looks on the outward appearance, but the LORD looks on the heart'” (1 Samuel 16:7).
We cannot see a person’s heart, but we can look at the works they produce and what they say.
Jesus warns us in Matthew 7:1-2, “Judge not, that you be not judged. For with the judgment you pronounce you will be judged, and with the measure you use it will be measured to you.” But He also provides more about our standard for judging in Matthew 7:3-5.
Then in Luke 6:43,45, Jesus said, “For no good tree bears bad fruit, nor again does a bad tree bear good fruit, for each tree is known by its own fruit…The good person out of the good treasure of his heart produces good, and the evil person out of his evil treasure produces evil, for out of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaks.”
