Have you ever seen the movie, Men In Black? If you haven’t, go out and rent it, it’s pretty good. Anywho, I love the end of the movie. It starts off with two people standing at a street corner in downtown New York City and it zooms out to where you see the whole city, then the state, region, country, continent and world. But then it keeps going! It zooms out further so you can see the planet, then the other various planets, followed by the galaxy and finally, we see the galaxy become a single marble mixed with other “galaxy” marbles and two weird alien creatures are playing a game of marbles with them.
I imagine that’s a pretty good picture of how God views His creation. I’m not saying God is a weird alien creature nor is He ignoring us while He is concentrating on an intense game of marbles. But to God, life is far bigger than me. It’s bigger than any of us. Look at Ecclesiastes 1:3-11 where Solomon illustrates this with awesome pictures to show us just how big God and His creation is. We are mere specks in His eyes.
Yet we always tend to look at life like it’s centered on us.
It’s easy to look at life through a first person perspective because that’s how we were created. Of course we see other people all around us and they have their own view on things because they are the ones living it, but there is no way to view things from their perspective.
So as we strive to become more like Christ, we should make every effort to view things as God views them. And when we do that, we are able to meet our full potential that God originally intended us for.
Not only is God big enough to look at things through His perspective, but He’s also able to look at things through ours as well. So as we struggle and endure all of life’s ups and downs, know that God is not only big enough to handle it, but He also knows exactly what you’re going through because He sees it as you see it.
The difference?
He can see a little bit further than you.
-NW
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