Today Mark reminded us of the importance of perspective. Think about it. Any given set of circumstances has almost an infinite number of possible explanations. And those possible explanations are filtered through our perspective.
Example: The diet coke I put in the frig at work is gone. (don't worry, just an example, didn't really happen. today. :-)
Possible explanations: I drank it this morning and forgot.
Elissa drank it because she thought it was hers.
Elissa drank it because she needed it.
Any number of people thought it was for the taking because it was in the BCM frig
Someone knocked it to the floor, it spewed all over the kitchen and is not in the trash
It got hidden behind something
You get the idea. There's really one explanation for circumstances that is right ... but we have lots of wrong ideas.
We do that with God all the time because we just don't have the same perspective as He does.
Mark shares this account in Lion Chaser ... that has stuck with me all day.
Corrie ten Boom used to speak to audiences about her horrific experiences in the concentration camps, and she would often look down while she talked. She wasn't reading her notes. She was actually working on a piece of needlepoint. After sharing about the doubt and anger and pain she experienced, Corrie would reveal the needlepoint. She would hold up the backside of the needlepoint to reveal a jumble of colors and threads with no discernible pattern. And she'd say, "This is how we see our lives." Then she would turn the needlepoint over to reveal the design on the other side, and Corrie would conclude by saying: "This is how God views your life, and someday we will have the privilege of viewing it from His point of view."
Ready to have the privilege of viewing HIS side of things. What about you??!!
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