Have you ever wondered about the view from your window on the world?  I know that my view is usually too narrow, and I fail to see all that there is to be seen.  I go through each day only seeing a fraction of all that there is even in my very small and finite world.  When I go to work, or when I make trip to the hardware store, or whatever event that takes me out into the world, I usually get focused on completing the mission of the moment and overlook the most important things.  I’ve heard it said that life is about the journey, not about the destination.  I don’t agree with the statement entirely, but I get the point.  The events in my life are too focused on my immediate destination, and I fail to take in the events going on in parallel with my existence.  More importantly, I too often fail to care for the people that I interact with that are also on their journey.

I remember very vividly the first time I made a flight on a commercial airline as a young person.  It was the first time my perspective of the world was radically changed.  For the first time I saw the world from an altitude of 35,000 feet.  It had a profound effect of putting my life and my very existence in a different perspective.  It became crystal clear that I was one person on a large planet of many, and the space that I normally occupied on the ground was a tiny space compared to the space that everyone else occupies and all the vast expanse of space in between.

While the view at 35,000 feet is awe-inspiring, it is still finite.  It is still only a fraction of God’s view.  He sees the whole world at one time, and knows every person on the planet.  Even beyond that, he loves each one of us equally.  His desire is that we all would spend eternity with him in a place beyond our imagination.  His desire for us is so strong that he sent his son to earth to live and die, and thereby remove the one thing called sin that would separate us from him forever.

I want to have more of God’s perspective of the world.  I want to see others the way God sees them.  The whole world is just outside my window, I just need to open the eyes of my heart when I look.

What is it that you see when you look out of your window on the world?

See you at the finish line.