What is perspective?

A perspective is the particular evaluation of a situation or fact especially from one's point of view.

Your perspective of life defines and determines to a large extent what you do with life. If you have a wrong perspective about life, you will likely misuse or abuse life. But if you have the right perspective which I have found can only come through The Word of God, you will properly use the opportunities that life avails.

Genesis 25:27-34
KJV:And the boys grew: and Esau was a cunning hunter, a man of the field; and Jacob was a plain man, dwelling in tents.

KJV:And Isaac loved Esau, because he did eat of his venison: but Rebekah loved Jacob.

KJV:And Jacob sod pottage: and Esau came from the field, and he was faint:

KJV:And Esau said to Jacob, Feed me, I pray thee, with that same red pottage; for I am faint: therefore was his name called Edom.

KJV:And Jacob said, Sell me this day thy birthright.

KJV:And Esau said, Behold, I am at the point to die: and what profit shall this birthright do to me?

KJV:And Jacob said, Swear to me this day; and he sware unto him: and he sold his birthright unto Jacob.

KJV:Then Jacob gave Esau bread and pottage of lentiles; and he did eat and drink, and rose up, and went his way: thus Esau despised his birthright.

This was Esau's perspective concerning a birthright. It was a seriously flawed one. It made him despise the birthright.

As valuable as gold can be, somebody who due mainly to ignorance has a poor perspective of gold will definitely despise gold.

For the rich fool in the Bible, his own perspective about life was too hedonistic for comfort (Luke 12:19). He was a man with an overdose of the "Dead Sea Complex". Life was all about him and no one else. Heaven did not find that funny!. He died on the most pleasurable days of his life on the pool of his goods.

Conclusion

Let's not be like Esau whose perspective about his birthright was a wrong based one, neither the rich fool whose perspective about life was hedonistic.
Let my perspectives and your perspectives be based on the word of God.

God bless All..!

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