The Divine Perspective

The Divine Perspective

Now all wept and mourned for her; but He said, “Do not weep; she is not dead, but sleeping.”

Luke 8:52

Christ does not see things the way we do. As Christ was about to raise the daughter of Jairus from the dead, He made what seemed to the audience, a ridiculous statement. He said, ‘Do not weep; she is not dead, but sleeping.’ Because the mourners were fully aware that the little girl was, in fact, dead, ’they ridiculed Him.’ Herein lies the wide disparity between Christ’s perspective and ours. We see, what we perceive to be, the harsh realities. We see that, in many cases, the person is ‘dead’ or that a given situation is unredeemable. We observe life from the totally human perspective. Christ views life from the Divine Perspective. Hence Christ could say, without a trace of irony, ‘she is not dead, but sleeping.’ If we would know Christ, then we must arrive at the place where we can see things from His Perspective. Herein lies real wisdom, that only comes from God. This gives us a clear path for prayer. If we are to pass through this scene of time with peace, wisdom and understanding, we are going to need to see things from God’s point of view. He Alone can give us these insights. Therefore, we can appeal to Him in prayer to enable us to see things from His Perspective. Then the hopeless case becomes the hopeful case, the impossible, possible, the unreachable, reachable. ‘Do not weep; she is not dead, but sleeping.’

Our All-Wise and All-Seeing Savior,
we rejoice that You see clearly what we do not see well at all.
We praise You, that in Your Loving Kindness,
You bring us to a true understanding of reality.

Tomm Tice
Where the Bush is Burning