Perspective

When I'm trying to see something clearly and understand its shape, I often look at it for a while from one position, then move to another position to look. By looking at the object from more than one perspective, I can get a better sense of it.

This principal is played out in all sorts of everyday experiences. When I look at sculpture. When I look at a historic site. When I look at a building.

I realize that I've just had that same opportunity to see -- only on a larger scale.

I usually see God from the perspective of my life, my culture, my upbringing, and my part of the world. Recently, I had a chance to see God through a very different culture in a different part of the world.

The change in perspective was amazingly helpful. By viewing Him from the position of people very different from myself, I learned a lot about Him. I have a clearer understanding of His "shape" and a better sense of His enormity, His essence.

By seeing Him from another angle, I understood a different dimension of God's nature. What a blessing! What an encouragement.