Point of View

 

dusk view from bridge between Sanibel and Captive

"Then Jesus began to tell them that the Son of Man must suffer many terrible things and be rejected by the elders, leading priests, and the teachers of the religious law. He would be killed, but three days later He would rise from the dead." (Mark 8:31)

Me: "How's the weather in Indiana?"

Rebecca: "It's warmed up!"

Me: "Well, it's cold in Alabama. What's the temperature up there?"

Rebecca: "Forty-eight degrees. What's the temperature down there?"

Me: "Forty-eight degrees."

Ha! Same temperature. Different points of view.

When Jesus told His disciples that He must suffer terrible things, be rejected, killed, but then He would rise from the dead, Peter took the Lord aside and reprimanded Him for saying such things.

Jesus then reprimanded Peter. "Get away from Me, Satan! You are seeing things merely from a human point of view, not from God's!" (Mark 8:33)

Peter viewed the cross as suffering, rejection, and death. God viewed the cross as salvation and forgiveness for whosoever believes in His resurrected Son.

As I beg God to stop the suffering and death in Ukraine, I also pray that God's kingdom will come and His perfect will is done, because

God's point of view is higher and greater than mine.

Selah.