Perspective

What is your perspective on life? Perspective is a view, a way of seeing things, or a way of regarding situations or facts. One event in our lives, one relationship to another person, or anything that happens can be seen from many different perspectives. Life is like one of those hologram cards. You know the ones I am talking about, my son has one with spiderman on it. If you hold it one way Spiderman is on the card on the right side of the pole, and if you look at it from another way Venom is on the card on the left side of the pole. As you move the card back and forth you see somthing different. Same card - different perspective.

So if you're serious about living this new resurrection life with Christ, act like it. Pursue the things over which Christ presides. Don't shuffle along, eyes to the ground, absorbed with the things right in front of you. Look up, and be alert to what is going on around Christ—that's where the action is. See things from his perspective.
Your old life is dead. Your new life, which is your real life—even though invisible to spectators—is with Christ in God. He is your life. When Christ (your real life, remember) shows up again on this earth, you'll show up, too—the real you, the glorious you. Meanwhile, be content with obscurity, like Christ.

Colossians 3:1-4

So what is your perspective? What do you see as your real life? Do you worry about things, money, stuff, what will happen next week or next year? This is seeing things from your perspective as a physical being, thinking that all this stuff, or your reputation is really important, that you can't live without it, and that it somehow tells you what you are worth and who you are.

Christ's perspective is much different. God sees us as spiritual beings having a human experience. This is your real life, the spiritual. A life that is to be lived with the mind of Christ, being content with being unnoticed, but loving. Being content by not being attached to things or reputation, but continuing to serve others. This is the joy of real life! So today, like that hologram card my son has, turn your life and view it from a different perspective and see how things change when you look at them from a different way!

Namaste'