Seeing Clearly

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Seeing things clearly involves seeing from the right perspective. Your perspective determines what you accept, reject and believe. The Christian walk requires us to see things from the "faith" in God perspective and this alters everything slightly. Let me explain what I mean. Remember the bible story of David and Goliath in 1 Samuel 17:1-58? When Goliath came to the camp of the Israelites and began to taunt them and curse them, they could only see from the "lack of faith" perspective and therefore all they saw was that he was too big to be killed by anyone in their army. However, David arrived on the scene and saw from the faith perspective that Goliath was too big to be missed by a stone from a sling! See what I mean?

There is a story about two shoe salesmen who went to a country and saw things from totally different perspectives. The natives did not wear any shoes and the first salesman gave up. He saw no prospects because the people wore no shoes. However, the other salesman saw massive prospects because he saw lots of barefooted people who needed shoes! Another faith perspective example is the narrative in 2 Kings 6:8-17. Elisha's servant was afraid when he saw how many of the king's horses and chariots had surrounded the city. From his perspective, they were physically outnumbered but Elisha asked God to open his eyes and then voila! he saw from a new perspective that they were surrounded by an even larger army with a host of flaming horses and chariots, ready to defend them as soon as the need arose.

Seeing clearly involves creatively visualizing opportunities and possibilities in every situation. It gives room for fresh and uncommon ideas. Have a focus that is God-centered and see beyond the physical to discerning truths from a spiritual perspective.

Cheers and thanks for reading!

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Good thoughts makes for new ideas.
You are definitely right in your summations because we all see things differently.
A glass containing water to the mid level can be viewed from two perspective:

  1. Half filled glass of water
  2. Half empty glass of water
    Now you decide how the glass of water looks like.
    Cheers

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You are absolutely on point

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