God's lens.

Isaiah 55:8-9 For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, said the LORD. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.


The way God sees things are different from the way we do. So is His thought line different from ours. When Samuel was sent by God to anoint one of Jesse's sons as King. Samuel was looking for the obvious physical features of Kings - nice stature and a regal looking appearance. He found it in Eliab, but God thought otherwise - 1Samuel 16:6-7 When they arrived, Samuel saw Eliab and thought, “Surely the Lord's anointed stands here before the LORD.”
But the LORD said to Samuel, “Do not consider his appearance or his height, for I have rejected him. The LORD does not look at the things people look at. People look at the outward appearance, but the LORD looks at the heart.”


God looks beyond what our eyes can see, God looks at our hearts, and many times what we regard as acceptable is often times unacceptable in God's eyes. The widow who gave her last mite was not the best giver in the eyes of the men and women gathered, yet in God's eyes , she was the one who gave the most. Mark 12:41-44 Jesus sat down opposite the place where the offerings were put and watched the crowd putting their money into the temple treasury. Many rich people threw in large amounts. But a poor widow came and put in two very small copper coins, worth only a few cents.

Calling his disciples to him, Jesus said, “Truly I tell you, this poor widow has put more into the treasury than all the others. They all gave out of their wealth; but she, out of her poverty, put in everything—all she had to live on.”


When the daughter of Jairus lay dead, all the people gathered wept, for they knew she was gone forever. God saw it differently. To Jesus, she was just sleeping. To the amazement of all, Jesus raised her from death - Mark 5:21-24; 37-43. God of all possibilities sees death of His children as just a long sleep - 1 Thessalonians 4:13-14 Brothers and sisters, we do not want you to be uninformed about those who sleep in death, so that you do not grieve like the rest of mankind, who have no hope. For we believe that Jesus died and rose again, and so we believe that God will bring with Jesus those who have fallen asleep in him.


Let us look at things through God's Word. That is our light. They are His thoughts and ways. His Word will point us to His Will.






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