I’m looking for perspective.
Some days just feel like drudgery. I think sometimes, "How did I deserve for my day too be so bad and go so wrong? I can’t believe I have to work 16 hours today and miss out on seeing The Hobbit tonight."
I can work through the drudgery because I know God has a plan for my day and I need not complain for my dull day when there are those not far from me truly suffering. How can I complain?
I think sometimes, “Well, how will I walk with a backpack next year with a foot that is sore and often times in real pain? How can I expect to go off around the world in that condition?”
I have a friend who has been struggling with MS symptoms for several years and has been waiting for her diagnoses. It never comes. But how will she go to Africa where God is calling her to go in that condition?
She’s looking for perspective.
She’s going. I can go certainly go with a bump on my foot.
I wear a bracelet on my wrist. A man wanted to buy it from me for my trip, but then asked me to wear it. I am. Every time I see it, I pray for him. I know on the outside he is curt, sarcastic and crass. I know on the inside he, like so many, is also looking, seeking and fighting to find Truth. I’m praying he finds it. It’s not so far away.
He’s looking for perspective.
In nine days it will be Christmas. I’m surprised that there aren’t more people searching for Truth and perspective during the time of year when we all celebrate the birth of Christ. It is too easy to be distracted by the lights, gifts, decorations, parties and family.
But this year will be different. People are searching for Truth and perspective as they wrestle with what’s wrong with the world.
Who is to blame?
You're looking for perspective.
“When a newspaper posed the question, ‘What’s Wrong with the World?’ the Catholic thinker G. K. Chesterton reputedly wrote a brief letter in response:
‘Dear Sirs:
I am.
Sincerely Yours,
G. K. Chesterton.'
That is the attitude of someone who has grasped the message of Jesus.”
My pastor shared that this morning at church.
It's quite a simple answer for a very large question. Each day brings with it new challenges of how to view the circumstances one will face. The sin of the world has brought drudgery, sickness, emptiness, despair and so much more. How can we make sense of it all without becoming angry, bitter and resentful? It begins with Christmas.
I am what’s wrong with the world. I am.
And because I am, He came.
My heart cannot truly grasp the magnitude of God becoming flesh. To come to my rescue. To save me. To redeem me. To give me eternal life. To love me. To have relationship with me.
But I’m what’s wrong with the world. I hate. I steal. I covet. I lust. I lie. I destroy.
Even still, God in His great mercy and righteousness came. He came to make me right with God. To correct what is wrong with this world. Me.
He has come to make it right.
I pray you can live in the
perspective of the eternal Hope
He has come to bring this Christmas.
Psalm 4:6
Many are asking, "Who can show us any good?" Let the light of your face shine upon us, O LORD.
Matthew 1:21
"And she will bear a Son; and you shall call His name Jesus, for it is He who will save His people from their sins."
Titus 3:7
"so that being justified by his grace we might become heirs according to the hope of eternal life."
1 Peter 1:3
"Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! According to his great mercy, he has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead."
