07 Jul Seeing Things How God Sees Them

I have always found comfort in the absolutes. This is wrong and this is right. Bad guy. Good guy. Wide path. Narrow path.

As a young believer growing up, I loved living in a black and white world. My little human brain could handle the black and white choices. This is right – do this. This is wrong – don’t do that. Don’t associate with that person or say these words or think this way and so on.

I forget that God’s eyes on things, His thoughts on this world and my life and all of us, are more complex and perfect and loving. I only see things through my broken human eyes with my broken human perspective – warped by my insecurities, my own context and what I believe to be right or wrong. So, I know that these eyes of mine will not be perfected till I am in my Fathers arms, but He is showing me that my heart can learn to see as He does right here right now- to look at the world and those in it as He does and to love as He does. This is wisdom.

“I forget that God’s eyes on things, His thoughts on this world and my life and all of us, are more complex and perfect and loving.”

We can be saved from what we deserve, but if we don’t let God change our hearts to see more like Him, we will miss loving this fallen broken world. A fallen broken girl in a fallen broken world works. Theres no tension in that. But, a fallen broken girl with the Holy Spirit of God Almighty can love a fallen broken world in a revolutionary way.

What about loving someone who has deeply hurt you? Loving someone in sin? Seeing someone from the standpoint of their pain? How does God view that person? Does He reject them? He didn’t even reject those who were nailing Him to a tree!

So, maybe changing my perspective is not condoning the sin or the brokenness, for as Jesus said, so often we do not know what we do. Changing my perspective is just asking for His eyes – His all knowing gracious eyes – to love. We NEED His eyes to love! If not, we only love those easy to love and this fallen broken world doesn’t skip a beat.

How can I today…how can we…all look towards the brokenness and instead of feeling hurt or defensive, see the HURTERS as God sees them – HURTING and needing Him. Can we be the ones to bring Him to them-even if undeserved?

“So you will find favor and good repute in the sight of God and man. Trust in the Lord with all of your heart, And do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge Him, And He will make your paths straight. Do not be wise in your own eyes.” Proverbs 3:4-7

-Katherine Gouch, Downtown