I recently heard a song called "Mended" by Matthew West that talks about our perspective verses God’s. It made me think of the popular catch phrase from the 90s, WWJD (what would Jesus do). When faced with a situation we can think… what would Jesus do if he was us in that moment. Unfortunately no matter how much we pray, how much we read the bible and how much we talk with God our perspective on situations and people is tainted by imperfection and we can never fully understand what Jesus or God would do when faced with a particular situation or think about a particular person, instead we can get revelations of glimmers of what he might do or think. This is because God’s perspective is laced with perfection. Revelation 22:13 talks about how God is the beginning and the end. Therefore God knows all that is to come, which means His perspective is going to be different to ours anyway as we haven’t seen what is to come.
Despite this, we shouldn’t stop trying to see things from God’s perfect perspective. Though we must remember that no matter how hard we try we will never get to that place of perfect perspective this side of the grave. But we can still declare what we want to see, whether that be healing or restoration or salvation or reconciliation. We must be like the father of the prodigal son, who waited for his son to return and when he saw his son coming, even though he still was a long way off, he began to rejoice.
Our words shape our world. We can bring glimmers of God’s perfect perspective wherever we go.
Despite this, we shouldn’t stop trying to see things from God’s perfect perspective. Though we must remember that no matter how hard we try we will never get to that place of perfect perspective this side of the grave. But we can still declare what we want to see, whether that be healing or restoration or salvation or reconciliation. We must be like the father of the prodigal son, who waited for his son to return and when he saw his son coming, even though he still was a long way off, he began to rejoice.
Our words shape our world. We can bring glimmers of God’s perfect perspective wherever we go.