Perspective

“So we don’t look at the troubles we can see now; rather, we fix our gaze on things that cannot be seen. For the things we see now will soon be gone, but the things we cannot see will last forever” 2Cor.4:18 [emphasis added].

Yesterday, we pointed out that problems attempt to press us into defeat, make us perplexed until we are depressed, and hunt us down into a dark place. But Paul gave us the secret to rising above which is to fix our gaze on God and not what we can see now. So what is the problem right now? Is it financial? It will soon be gone. Is it marital? It will soon be gone. Is it emotional? It will soon be gone. Are you having problems with raising your children? Even that will also soon be gone because they will soon need to face life on their own, and then realize that all your actions were from a place of love.

So if you allow the temporal to mess up your whole life, by the time it expires, you would have lost so much ground. But if you engage like Paul teaches us, connect to and fix your gaze on what will not expire, then you will enjoy your life all through. In fact after a while, the enemy will be the one worrying because nothing he is doing is depleting your joy.

So the biggest challenge is not the problem you are going through or experiencing. The biggest problem is how you see the problem [your perspective]. More than anything else, your thoughts shape your life. Your thoughts influence your life more than your background, more than your genes. Your thoughts affect your life even more than your medical state. Medically, they say if people that are medically sick can maintain a joyful state, for some miraculous reason some chemicals are produced that begin to heal their body. So the problem is not the problem, the problem is how you see the problem.

That is why many times God will say to people, what do you see? What do you see? The course of your life and the quality of your life is determined by the quality and direction of your thoughts. Life is a series of mountain tops and valley lows, a mixture of good and bad times. Nobody is immune to bad times. Everybody will go through mountain tops and valley lows; everybody will have a mixture of good and bad, a combo of opportunities and obstacles. The difference is, what do you see? It is your perspective.

Prayer: Holy Spirit, beginning from today, I am going to think clearly, in Jesus Name.