Eyes of "Frodo"

In "The Two Towers", Sam and Frodo run into Gollum, who is after his "precious". The hideous creature, deformed and twisted by his deep and dark desire and the spell that the evil Sauron placed on him to find the ring of power leads him to the two hobbits set on the quest to destroy the ring and save Middle-Earth. Finally meeting him, Frodo concludes to Sam "you know, now that I see him, I do pity him." When Christ saw Israel as they were-a flock of sheep with no shepherd, he was moved to compassion-even to the point of weeping. Sometimes when we see people with the same compassion as Jesus did, we can draw to the same conclusion as Frodo-"now that I've seen them ,I take pity on them..." We live in a lost realm-a world without a shepherd,without a clue. We struggle with the fact that we were once lost and in despair like those around us. Instead of judging them maybe we need to take pity on them, they need Jesus and we're the only Jesus they may hear or see.