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Our Choice in Perspectives

Moment by moment life presents to us a choice in perspectives. We can keep our eyes directed downward, looking at other created things for help and understanding or we can choose to lift our eyes to our Creator.

A photo magnified one hundred times makes the subject look entirely different and leaves out significant information about the entire scene. Drawing conclusions from such an image without the entire picture would be foolish and in error. In a similar way, the perspective we have with our eyes directed downward towards our temporal circumstances inevitably wrongly interprets God and reality.

However, with eyes lifted to our Creator we can rightly interpret our circumstances in the light of His truth. As the Psalmist says “I lift up my eyes to the mountains— where does my help come from? My help comes from the LORD, the Maker of heaven and earth.” (Psalm 121:1-2, NIV)

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 We can view one of the most beautiful perspectives in nature by lifting our eyes to the sunrise at dawn. Across the expanse of the sky, vibrant colors of light crescendo in intensity to usher in the full light of day. This scene of brilliant progression illustrates how God imparts to us His revelation in ever-increasing intensity and beauty. Paul used this metaphor to encourage us “…to pay attention to [God’s word], as to a light shining in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts.” (2 Peter 1:19, NIV)

A morning star’s light is so brilliant that it shines even in the light of the dawn. Jesus said in Revelation 22:16: “I am…the bright Morning star” (NIV). We are at a time in history when we are looking forward to Jesus’ second coming in the midst of a desperate and dark world. Meditating on and memorizing scripture is one way that we can bask and soak in the light of God’s word as we wait for Jesus’s return, which will culminate in the brightest, most glorious light we will ever know!

Revelation 21:23-25 and 22:5 (NIV) describe the brilliant culmination of God’s eternal kingdom of light:

“The city does not need the sun or the moon to shine on it, for the glory of God gives it light, and the Lamb is its lamp. The nations will walk by its light, and the kings of the earth will bring their splendor into it. On no day will its gates ever be shut, for there will be no night there.”
“There will be no more night. They will not need the light of a lamp or the light of the sun, for the Lord God will give them light. And they will reign for ever and ever.”



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