Looking for the good in people like The Flash

As I sit to write this blog, the TV show, The Flash has just completed its 3rd season.  If you watch the show for any length of time, you come across a scene where Barry Allen (The Flash) will reach out to the antagonist and try to find and bring out the good in that person.  Many people who watch the show find this annoying, but I find this quality to be very meaningful.

I think that when you reach out and to try to find the good within a person, who is doing things that you dislike, gives depth to that person.  This will keep you from reducing the person to a two dimensional comic character.  I find it ironic that a fictitious comic book character on this show is showing more depth of being, than many real people are doing in our country and world at this time.

This also reminds me of what the Christ (God) of Christianity did during his time here on Earth.  The people who taught the Bible (The Pharisees) had imposed the laws, & the lifestyle that they understood from scriptures upon the people, and divided their fellow countrymen into two groups, either law-keepers, or sinners (the people who did not live as the Pharisees thought that they should).

Jesus, The Christ, came on the scene and He was different.  He saw the good in people.  He saw people like Zacchaeus and Matthew, who were the classic bad guys from a Robin Hood or Zorro TV show and saw the good in them.  Both Zacchaeus and Matthew were employed by the Roman Government to squeeze money out of their fellow countrymen for the Roman rulers as well as themselves.  Jesus, however saw the good in them, and they became heroes.  This is one of the themes that is repeated over and over in the gospel accounts of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John.  The Pharisees tried to enforce a moral code, that they saw in scriptures and punish people.  Jesus chose to hang out with these same people, and He saw the good in them, and because He did, they became good.

I can't help but think that if the people who claim to be followers of this same Jesus today, would act this same way, then our country would be a lot better off.  Now I not siding with one political side or the other in this blog, because my honest personal opinion is that both sides are equally guilty of this.  Both sides are trying to impose moralistic code of conduct upon people as they see fit, which makes both sides no different than the religious rulers of Jesus' day. 

What if instead of being Pharisees, we became more like the Flash if not like Jesus.  I love to see the results, if that were to happen.