Dead or alive?

It is getting cold here! Which is not something I'm really excited about, cold weather is not my thing. Luckily, Texas doesn't have super, super cold Winters, so it's not so terrible. One thing I like about Winter is the trees. After all they've lost all their leaves, and look so bare and dead-like. They are still alive! Beneath the bark and down in the earth they are just as alive as ever, yet from what we can see they are dead. That's like how people see other people compared to how God sees people. We might see someone and think they are a terrible person, that they aren't worth it, that they are spiritually dead, to far gone to be saved, all because they look or act a certain way. We are so quick to judge other people that we don't even stop and look at ourselves! What do we look like to other people? Do we look dead too?