How we see things depends on where we stand.
The poor person drives by a mansion and sees luxury beyond belief. The rich person sees the taxes they pay, the threats of lawsuits, and the crumbling market that might steal it away.
The single person envies the married friend with three kids. The friend has no time of her own, argues with her husband, and her eldest son battles with drugs.
Inside or outside; from where do we look? That’s what determines what we see.
Job of biblical renown was given the unique opportunity to see life from both sides. He was wealthy beyond belief with a large family, and it was all taken away.
Job 30:1 gives us his lament:
“But now they who are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to have set with the dogs of my flock.”
Job is telling us that men he wouldn’t have trusted to watch over his flocks have children making fun of how low he has fallen. These are harsh words for a man down on his luck, yet they are a cry from his heart, for Job is on the verge of giving up. He doesn’t know that God will soon restore to him all that was taken away.
What are we seeing through our eyes and not through God’s perspective? Are we about to give up, when God’s answer is on the way? Are we seeing what we aren’t instead of what God knows we will be?
Whether we’re blessed, and our blessings weigh us down, or we feel destitute and left behind by the world, our hope is found in Jesus Christ, for he is our source and our foundation, and our redemption in the life to come.
God’s eyes envision possibilities, for he sees the future. To him, it’s already come to pass. Our job is to wait on him to bring it to fruition.
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