A Person's Perspective

As humans, we often see the world from our personal point of few—from the first-person view that we can't help but see. We focus on the details as they come and go, but we rarely ever step back and see everything put together as one masterpiece. Of course, we can't see the details and events to come, but we can see how life has built up to these moments.

We're so focused on the now, we don't realize everything else going on—we don't realize the big picture. But God, being all knowing and having crafted you and your plan, sees it all. He also doesn't just see you where you're at now, like most people who don't know you very well probably do. He sees you for all that you are—your past, your present, your future, how you act on the outside and for you who are on the inside. He looks at all of it.

It's hard to look at more than just the individual situation, though. How can we focus on events in the past when the situation in the present seems to only be relevant in the moment? When you're working on a puzzle, you don't just look at the one piece and blindly stick it in the puzzle somewhere. No, you analyze everything and investigate, trying to figure out how it fits in. We need to do that more in our lives—whether it be for something good or bad. A puzzle piece won't make sense at the beginning of a puzzle, but you see the whole picture once it's completed. God knows what the completion of your story looks like, and He's just helping you put all the pieces together. Trust the Artist, He knows what He's doing.

The moments that make up a person can truly shape who they are. How did they come to know Christ, if they do know him? How was their faith impacted when God worked in their lives? So, while you may see them for a short moment of time, or simply pass by them at the store, you only got to see a person's perspective, while God sees everything.

You may be focused on something that's hard to deal with, but God, with His perspective, sees everything. It's so easy to feel lost in a maze, but when God is holding the map in His hands, looking at the maze from above, He sees it all and can direct your steps through it.

As we are created to be, we live in the presence of time, so we can't escape the past, present, or what's to come in the future. We may think about the past and the future, but we're concerned with the present and I think we need to think about all of it as a whole, not just how will this result help me in the future? Each piece is important for our lives. 

When God made you, He thought about everything. He thought about how results would build upon one another and how your faith in Him would develop. He doesn't create a person without a purpose, and sometimes it's hard to see that and we end up wondering why we're on this earth at all. Well, God knows it all and maybe we should all try to see it from His perspective more often instead of a person's perspective.

~The Inspired One