Prayer and Perspective

For some reason, perspective seems to be a theme in the writings God sends me. He has revealed to me in a very real way that the Free Will He allowed mankind, requires that we be actively involved in the choices we make about how we look at and/or react to the situations God places before us.

I do not want to mislead you to think that I have always taken the right perspective on situations. No, I have not. But God has taught be from those times and I feel that it is so important to share what God has done for me! I am a VERY visual learner. So, I decided to use a visual aid to help drive my point home. Look at the following picture...Okay, before you go on talking about what a horrible photographer I am, lets think about this. What is this? {you will find out later}

I will tell you that it is just a small piece of a larger picture. Imagine that the whole image was the size of a huge wall. The image took up every square inch of that wall. And you, the observer, were forced to stand with your nose against that wall. What would you be able to see. Perhaps something like the picture above.

It would be a very small piece of the whole picture that you would be able to see. Also, it would be hard to put the picture into focus. Just the shear size of the thing and your position to it would make it nearly impossible to figure out what the artist was attempting to do with this "mess."

This is exactly how our lives are. Life is like a masterpiece of art that fills up a whole wall of time. We, often try to observe and analyze what God {the Holy Artist} is trying to do with this "mess." Particularly during the difficult times, we stand there with our nose against the wall of God's Plan trying to make sense of it all. "Why God?" and "What does all this mean?" are often our questions.

This is where FAITH steps in. The Bible says,
"Do you not know? Have you not heard? The LORD is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He will not grow tired or weary, and his understanding no one can fathom." Isaiah 40:28

See HE knows things that we cannot comprehend. He is the only Person big enough to stand far enough back from the "wall" of His Plan to see the whole thing. So we must...

"Trust in the LORD with all {our} heart and lean not on {our} own understanding; "Proverbs 3:5

When things see crazy, out of focus, and just plain unfair we have to learn to lean on His understanding. This is difficult because our minds are made in the image of his. I believe that we have the physical capacity to understand what God understands...{you can read plenty of studies about the amount of un-used matter in our human brains.} What we lack, is the spiritual capacity to understand like Him.

I challenge you, especially if you have something going on in your life that you do not understand, to "Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you."1 Peter 5:7

Let him handle the details in your life...remember, only He can see the BIG picture!

{The first picture was a piece of Carys' shoulder as seen in the picture above.}