A Proper Perspective
And
because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts,
crying, Abba, Father.
Our heavenly Father wants to
spend time with us, to share our lives with us. Yet, it appears that we get too
busy and too involved with far less important things. In our earthbound daily
schedules, we tend to neglect one of the most powerful gifts God has given us as
our heavenly Father. His desire for our worship amounts to a permanently open
door to the presence of God, and Jesus’ sacrifice on the cross gives all the
family of God unfettered access to praise our King.
All too often, however, we
forget that privilege and get bogged down with the mundane issues of life. What
we need most is what we neglect.
For now we see through a
glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know
even as also I am known. I Corinthians 13:12
Worship is heaven’s tool of
choice for readjusting skewed human perspectives. Worship possesses a
supernatural ability to correct our spiritual vision problems and bring
everything into divine focus. If my Heavenly Father isn’t worried, why should
I feel discouraged?
In April of 1990, NASA,
America’s space agency, proudly unveiled and launched the revolutionary new
Hubble Space Telescope using the space shuttle. No one knew that technological
marvel would develop two serious problems that endangered its reason for
existence -- a ‘vision’ problem due to nearsighted and astigmatic lenses,
and the inability to flex its solar panels toward the sun to recharge its
batteries.
These same problems seem to
plague many children of God today. We try to fly high but our vision is still
grounded by human limitations, and we quickly lose power because we are slow to
flex our worship panels toward the Son.
Do you wonder at times if you
will ever fulfill your destiny in Christ? I am not speaking of your eternal
destiny, that's assured - but, your purpose on this earth. If you suspect
you need a heavenly readjustment for your skewed human perspective, then worship
Him. Worship will take you places you could never go on your own.
The problem isn’t that you
want to fly high -- you were created to do just that. Most of us have serious
perspective problems compounded by our failure to worship Him without
reservation.
A skewed perspective makes
every molehill of life look like an impassable mountain from hell.
People look at Mount Everest and say, "Oh, look——it’s huge!"
They are right, I suppose, but anyone can board a jetliner and fly right over
the earth’s highest point and look down on that mountain from a far higher
perspective. It doesn’t appear as ominous from up there. Size, mass, and
height all seem to depend on the height of your vantage point. The elevation of
your observation site determines whether you say you are looking up there
or down there.
So when life is coming at you
like a sunami, worship! It’s your Father’s gift to you.