Perspective

After recent events in the life of the church, God has been speaking to me about our perspective. 
Put simply, perspective is how big or how little an object appears depending upon where we are looking at it from.  In film perspective is created by the position of the camera.  If the camera is placed low to the ground, looking up at an object, that object appears larger - this is called a low perspective shot.  If the camera is placed high above the ground looking down at an object, that object appears diminished - obviously this is called a high perspective shot.
Sometimes in our lives we develop a low the perspective of the things that are in our lives: circumstances, finance, relationship with God.  This means that these things appear larger and more dominant than they are meant to be because of our position in relation to them.  The problem with this is that we were never meant to have a low perspective but often do because of what we believe about ourselves.  Often, because of our past experiences, beliefs about ourselves, family history etc... we undervalue ourselves and take on a perspective that God never meant us to have.  We need to remind ourselves of who we are in Christ.
God says that we are a 'royal priesthood', 'joint hiers with Christ', children of God', 'the head and not the tail': and these are just a small example of what God has called us to be.
The problem is that when we view things from our perspective instead of from God's, the things we are looking at come to dominate our perspective.  We need a change of viewpoint.
What Christ achieved on the cross was the ability for us to change our viewpoint in relation to our circumstances.  Through relationship with God we are elevated above our circumstances (the things we are looking at) and are able to take on a perspective that enables us to see our circumstances as they truly are.  What this means is that our renewed perspective makes those things that once seemed to dominate our lives diminish when we view them through the perspective of the cross.  Our position within those circumstances may not change, but our ability to see them as God sees them changes our relationship to them.  It's not that we become the head and they the tail, it's that we see that we always were the head.
We were never meant to have a diminished perspective, we were meant to see the circumstances of our lives diminish because of our perspective.
So... where is your perspective today?

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