Perspective

“Eyes. We talk about an eagle eye. They can see. And one of the things that happens in the stress of life and the fatigue of life is that we lose perspective. And when we lose perspective, we can quickly lose purpose and path and perseverance. We've got to constantly have a renewed perspective, and that's why you need God's Word, and that's why you need a spiritual dynamic in your life. Perspective is everything in life, right? I mean, isn't perspective everything in life? How you see?”

“Perspective. I think that nothing is harder right now than keeping life in perspective. It's so unpredictable. It is so unusual. Life has become very wearisome to many of us. And so we're needing to learn how we can keep life in perspective. Simply define, perspective is how you see and what you think about someone or something. Perspective is how you see or what you think about someone or about something.”

“But we have one perspective that shapes everything else in our lives, and it's the perspective of the great exchange. What is that perspective? 2 Corinthians chapter 5 verse 21.”

“Well, I've said that word perspective, several times because perspective changes everything in life. How you see life, how you interpret life, how you feel about life. All of that has to do with perspective because perspective is everything in life.”

“And then what they say, their perspective in this is we seemed to ourselves like what? Grasshoppers. One of the weakest, feeble, tiny little creatures that any boy or little girl could grab up and could conquer in a moment. And so because of what they saw in front of them and the panic and the turmoil and the anxiety, their perspective was not a perspective that looked to God.”

“I have an agenda, you have an agenda, and when people won't go along with my agenda, then we've got a disagreement, and if we're not careful, it can quickly become an argument. But one of the most important things that we have to do to deal with anger in our lives is to be able to try to deal with disagreements and to understand that some of our disagreements come more from an issue of perspective than they truly do from an issue of division. Right now, there are two perspectives in this room. I have one perspective.”

“And I'm sitting there in groups. Christians are just bad-mouthing all these people. Maybe they deserve it, but Christians bad-mouthing them with unbelievers around. we lost our perspective because we didn't have an eternal perspective. Paul says that when we live in light of eternity, it changes our perspective. We have an eternal perspective and it changes the way we walk. It changes the way that we see people.”

“There is something that is a greater reality. And ultimately, our view, our perspective of life needs to be shaped not just by all the tense, but our view needs to be shaped by the ultimate reality of what is yet to come. Perspective.”