From God’s perspective much of what we feel is important isn’t even real. We find ourselves dealing with our wrongness or so-called bad elements. God does not see bad or wrong. God sees closer to love or further away from love. God sees room to grow or living from love completely. The categories and classifications we create simply disappear from God’s view because it is not useful. How many times have we tried to motivate ourselves out of bad or wrong behavior? How effective have we been at coming at ourselves with a bat and beating ourselves into effective changes? The perspective from which we see ourselves dictates our movements into change. If we perceive ourselves to be fundamentally bad and wrong, there is no room for hope of an alternative. The very label is approached as something that must be destroyed. How many bad people do you hang around hoping to get to know their good side? Versus how many good people do you hang around that you know sometimes behave badly? How often is that person you? If we adopt God’s perspective and disappear the idea of badness and embrace our goodness that got off track, there is room for improvement.
My prayer for us is the curiosity to look at what perspectives might serve us to disappear and embrace those that would enable us to move forward in hope today.
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