Daily Thought for Tuesday, March 8th

March 8, 2011

Perspective

Today’s Thought:

“A moments insight is sometimes worth a life’s experience.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. from (The Professor of the Breakfast Table)

Today’s Question

Do you ever feel like you can’t see the forest, even while you are looking at the trees?

Today’s Spiritual Thought:

Later on, when they had all said ‘Good-by’ and  ‘Thank-you’ to Christopher Robin, Pooh and Piglet walked home thoughtfully together in the golden evening, and for a long time they were silent.

‘When you wake up in the morning, Pooh,’ said Piglet at last, ‘What’s the first thing you say to yourself?’

‘What’s for breakfast?’ said Pooh, ‘What do you day, Piglet?’

‘I say, I wonder what’s going to happen exciting today?’ said Piglet.

Pooh nodded thoughtfully. ‘It’s the same thing,’ he said.

– A. A. Milne from (Winnie-the-Pooh, 1926)

Perspective is nothing more than the point of view or the way in which we see or perceive things to be.

Do you have a ‘glass half empty’ or a ‘glass half full’ perspective on life?

Things are not always as they appear to be but even more often things are not as we see them either.  This is especially true from a spiritual point-of-view.

We tend to see things through sin colored glasses our perception being tinted by prejudices, preconceptions and predisposed ideals.  We most assuredly do not usually see things from God’s viewpoint.

Where we see impossibilities – God sees opportunities.

Where we see frailty and weakness – God sees strengths and potentials.

When we seem to see gloom and doom – God sees promise and glory.

When we see failure  - God sees victories.

We when see a sinner, vile and disgusting – God sees a soul He loves so much that He gave His Son to die for him/her.

What do you see when you look to the future?  Probably poverty, crime, corruption, hardships, loss, hatred, wars, desperation: but God sees the rapture of the church, the establishment of His eternal kingdom, a family reunion with all of His children that will never end and will be great, grand and glorious for an eternity.

Maybe what we need to make it through each day is less of our perceptions and more of God’s.

Today’s Verses:

For we know in part, and we prophesy in part. But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away. When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things. For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.

1 Corinthians 13:9-12

But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.

          2 Corinthians 3:18

Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.

                    1 John 3:2

Today’s Prayer:

Father, open my eyes and help me to see by faith, the hope, the promise and the glory of what is yet to come and how what is before me now are the elements that are bringing that future to pass.