We need perspective. Perspective is much about the understanding of what we see. If you change your position, your perspective might change as well. It is like seeing something up close and then moving away, seeing something from ground level then moving five stories in the air. It really changes things a lot. Your perspective changes.
I think this is something of what Paul was talking about in Philippians 3. These verse stream off the page, and to look at it a little different or to apply them in a different way may make them come alive.
Here is what I mean… take them at face value as true and note the various things about faith that come to life. Now make them a part of prayer with each piece a different prayer. Let’s read it.
Philippians 3:9-11 NLT
…I no longer count on my own righteousness through obeying the law; rather, I become righteous through faith in Christ. For God’s way of making us right with himself depends on faith. 10 I want to know Christ and experience the mighty power that raised him from the dead. I want to suffer with him, sharing in his death, 11 so that one way or another I will experience the resurrection from the dead!
I will take the rest of this devotion and come at these verses from prayer. I mean from the perspective of connecting to God through prayer either in asking Him for these or confessing the truth I learn. Try this.
— God, I confess my own way hasn’t worked so you are my righteousness.
— God, increase my faith as you transform me and align me with you.
— God, help me to know you more being convinced so much that I experience your power.
— God, allow me to experience resurrection from the dead in so many areas of my life, physical, emotional, spiritual, my work, my family and beyond.
That is a sweet and renewed perspective. Or you might call that applied truth. As Christians we have all the ability to apply the truth of God to our lives.
May the words of Scripture and the gifts of God become more and more real as we allow God to change our perspective.
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