Day 81- Perspective and Big Picture Thinking
📖Daily Reading
Job 34-42
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📝 Reflection
Job 38: 1-11
Then the Lord answered Job from the whirlwind:
Who is this that questions my wisdom with such ignorant words? Brace yourself like a man, because I have some questions for you and you must answer them.
Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? Tell me, if you know so much. Who determined its dimensions and stretched out the surveying line? What supports its foundations, and who laid its cornerstone as the morning stars sang together and all the angels shouted for joy? Who kept the sea inside its boundaries as it burst from the womb, and as I clothed it with clouds and wrapped it in thick darkness? For I locked it behind barred gates, limiting its shores. I said, “this far and no farther will you come. Here your proud waves must stop!’
So after all of the complaining, arguing, and defending God arrives on the scene and straightens everyone out with putting things in the proper perspective. He uses an interesting approach, rather than just going into listing his greatness he asks questions. Through doing this he is reminding Job of the bigger picture and getting him out of his own limited perspective that is focused on himself. It is so easy to fall into the ‘pit’ of our circumstances. From our limited perspective at times the world may truly seem dark, hopeless, too hard, sad, painful, unfair etc. We have to be reminded that our vantage point is limited and that our circumstances are not alway a reliable source of perspective of the full story. Sometimes it is ‘fake news’, sometimes it is only part of the story and we need God to come in like Walter Cronkite and tell us ‘the rest of the story’.
The imagery and story of Horton Hears A Who came to my mind as I was reading. The 'Who’s' had no idea that their world wasn’t the ‘whole’ world. They had been protected from the ‘bigger’ or outside world and it was terrifying for them to learn that things were not all that the thought that they were. Conversely, Horton is not believed by his friends that something exists beyond what they could see, hear or comprehend. I think we can see ourselves in Horton and in The Who’s. Whoville is all we know, we are ‘it’ and then we get reminded that there is more even if we can’t see it, and we are like Horton we may believe in something that can’t be seen and we can face ridicule and challenge for believing. Who are you in the face of all of this? Are you blown by the wind of popular opinion, relying on your limited perspective of things?
God gives us the gift of life and in that he is communicating to us that we are significant, we are the crown jewel of his creation, created in his image. But we are not the creator, we are the creation. Our circumstances and experiences of comfort and adoration from other humans is not a measure of our significance, but it feels like it and when we don’t have it it feels awful and we take it personally (we are persons after all). In doing this we forget that we don’t know the whole story or the bigger picture and that we are not in control of the cosmos and we don’t bear the burden of that responsibility either. Thank you Jesus!
We need to remember our place and be grateful. We often though get so caught up in our circumstances that we begin to think in terms of ‘my rights’, ‘I deserve…’, ‘they deserve’, ‘it’s not fair, I am trying so hard and …’ . Our heads are so loud, noisy, confusing and sometimes scary if we don’t take time to make sure our minds are in the right perspective of bigger picture tihinking. One of my favorite verses is Psalm 46:10 - ‘Be still and know that I am God!’ This reminder and perspective is repeated throughout the Bible. Are you taking time on a regular basis to ‘be still and know’ and get your perspective re-adjusted?
Ps.
I often hear people say they don’t have time to meditate, pray, journal, have quiet time, add margin to their day to just be and breathe etc. We, especially us ladies, wear busyness and being needed by others as a badge of honor. No judgement here, I was one of those. The more I was listening to those that had achieved what I wanted and had a quality of life that I was seeking, the more I realized that I was going to have to do what they did. And you know what they all do? They get still and keep bringing themselves back to the bigger picture and a greater perspective and vision, through these disciplines. I am telling you, if you want to get out of the spin cycle, out of the feeling of circling the drain, chasing your own tail, off the hamster wheel, (pick your analogy) you don’t have time NOT to! When you take more time you have more time! This is kingdom economy.
✍🏼Daily Journal Prompt
Are you taking time on a regular basis to ‘be still and know’ and get your perspective re-adjusted?
📖Tomorrows Reading
Psalms 1-8
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