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Perspective - Pronkertjie - 05-10-2004
I have become all things to all men so that by all possible means I might save some. 1 Corinthians 9:22
Even though God gives us a brand-new day every twenty-four hours, we seldom begin it with a brand-new outlook. All too often, we regard the day ahead as "just another day." We may see a different date, but the day seems filled with the same routine, same troubles, same faces, same responsibilities.
Wouldn't it be wonderful if we could look at each day from a slightly different perspective and, with God's guidance, learn to serve Him better as a result?
A Bible translator named Fraiser learned the importance of different perspectives in a very interesting way. Known simply as "Fraiser of Lisuland" in northern Burma, he translated the Scriptures into the Lisu language. Fraiser went on to do translation work somewhere else for a time, leaving a young fellow with the task of teaching the people to read.
When he returned six months later, he found three students and the teacher seated around a table, the Scriptures open in front of the teacher. Fraiser was amazed to see that as each of the students read for him, he left the Bible where it was - in front of him. The man on the left read it sideways, the man on the right read it sideways but from the other side, and the man across from the teacher read it upside down. Since they had always occupied the same chairs, they each had learned to read from the particular perspective, and they each thought that was how their language was written!
We can be like that too. When we learn something from only one perspective, we may think that it's the only perspective. We have the solution to our problem, but nobody else's. Sometimes it's necessary to change seats and assume a different perspective on the same truth in order to help others.
The principles of truth in God's Word never change, but our understanding of them does! As God to give you new insights about Him today. With your new perspective, you may see the solution to a problem that has plagued someone for years.
As our perspective broadens, our ability to help ourselves and others increases.
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