It's all a matter of Perspective

          Perspective- the way a person sees life. I know I said a few posts back that I was going to post daily- well, obviously that isn’t happening. But I have learned a lot in the past few days and am very excited to share what God has been showing me through His Word. The most recent one is about Perspective- the way I look at life.

          We read in Genesis 3 that Adam and Eve ate of the tree of knowledge of good and evil; they disobeyed God. The tree did just what God warned them it would do- it would give them the ability to see good and evil, and they would die. The only problem was because they disobeyed, they sinned, and their disobedience took away the ability to discern (to decipher/ distinguish) the difference between good and evil. Which led them to die- to follow after evil, thinking it was good.

“Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter!” Isaiah 5:20

         

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Only God knows what is good and what is evil. We sinned and now we cannot see anything at all. We are blind. But God, in His great mercy drew us out of the sin and placed us in His heavenly light. We do not have to be blind anymore, we can have the ability to discern between what is good and what is evil.

          Once you become a Christian, and you see the light of Jesus Christ, you hunger for God. You hunger for His Word. It grows from within us- like a seed hat takes root and begins to grow and be nourished, our hunger and thirst for God should be growing, not dying. We hunger, we thirst, we try to fill it with everything else we think is “good” only to find out we have been killing ourselves the whole time. Then it happens, we regain our sight and now see life from a different perspective- His Perspective.

          We hunger for His Word because His word is truth, it is pure, undiluted truth. The Word of God is GOOD. He has given us all the wisdom and discernment we could ever desire; if we would just read His Word. His Word brings life- you cannot know good and evil without His Word. It is impossible. For only God knows what is good and what is evil.

          We may have partaken in disobedience and marred our perception of good and evil in our lives. But God has, in His merciful love given us the handbook- the step by step instructions for how to discern good in our lives, in others, and in the life we live. He has given “…us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who called us to his own glory and excellence,” (2 Peter 1:3)

          If we would just pick it up and read it…