{"id":321,"date":"2018-12-05T09:35:21","date_gmt":"2018-12-05T17:35:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/migrate.bettersermons.org\/?p=321"},"modified":"2020-06-01T11:39:41","modified_gmt":"2020-06-01T18:39:41","slug":"perspective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bettersermons.org\/perspective\/","title":{"rendered":"Perspective"},"content":{"rendered":"
Perspective<\/span><\/div>\n

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\nBy Dick Duerksen<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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\u00a9 2008 Dick Duerksen, Storyteller Maranatha Volunteers International<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Adam\u2019s perspective changed once he saw Eve. His transition from discouragement to elation was instantaneous!<\/p>\n

Simon\u2019s perspective changed when Jesus \u201ccalled in\u201d several schools of fish. The net-full of reality transformed Simon into Peter and moved him from fishing for fish to fishing for men.<\/p>\n

Pilot\u2019s perspective on Jesus changed when he heard from his wife. \u201cI have suffered many things because of this innocent man. Have nothing to do with him.\u201d Though his perspective shifted, his actions did not, and Pilot is know best for disobeying his wife.<\/p>\n

Brenda and I were in the Washington Cascades Sunday, just long enough to stop on a Forest Service road and \u201csmell the Lupines.\u201d The pines were tall and golden. The grass was deep and brilliantly green. There were thousands of wildflowers beneath the trees – clumps of Columbia Lilies, Rose Paintbrush, False Solomon\u2019s Seal, and meadows of Lupines.<\/p>\n

And there was sunshine. Beams of gold and bright searched through the trees and illuminated rows of purple-and-blue Lupines, giving the brilliant grasses a dowdy look beneath the stunning wildflower pillars.<\/p>\n

I used a long telephoto lens, and collected views that would be seen by passing eagles.<\/p>\n

Then I switched to a wide wide-angle lens, and photographed the forest as a gopher might see it.<\/p>\n

Then I wondered how an owl might see the flowers. I kept the 16mm lens but looked at the Lupines from an imaginary \u201cowl-post\u201d on the first limb of a towering pine. The change of perspective changed everything. The \u201ctowers\u201d became \u201cbuttons\u201d and the \u201cclumps of Lupines\u201d look like a ripidly-growing \u201cground cover\u201d that has spread across the entire forest floor!<\/p>\n

One afternoon when Jesus finally tired of explaining his mission to testy scribes he just spoke as clearly as he could, providing all listeners with a simple, understandable, transformational, and earth-shaking perspective on his role.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have come so you can have LIFE,\u201d he said, \u201cLife full, abundant, and free. Life as God has it!\u201d<\/p>\n

His description is recorded in John 10:10. It\u2019s clear. It\u2019s new. It\u2019s revolutionary. It\u2019s a perspective that changes how we look at God, how we look at daily chores, how we treat each other, even how we use our time.<\/p>\n

When Jesus changes our perspective, he changes everything!
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