Developing God’s perspective on
life can change your whole attitude. Some folks have bad attitudes, and it is
solely based on perspective. Your whole outlook hinges on the way you view your
life, how you see God, and how you see yourself.
In regard to perspective, the
more I learn about God, the more I learn about Christ in me, and the more I
learn about Christ in me, the more the limits seem to disappear. Now, we know
that we can do anything that God calls us to do; it doesn’t matter how much it
costs. When confronted with a new opportunity, our human inclination nine times
out of ten is to immediately ask, “What’s it gonna cost”? What do you care? As
though! Do you really think that you are the supplier of all of your needs? If
so, then your perspective needs to change. By definition, your perspective is
the periscope through which you view life.
Revelation will cause your
perspective to change, and the whole purpose of revelation, in one word, is
conviction. Not guilt, but conviction. Conviction is a persuasion. After
undergoing this process, we become men and women of conviction. Sometimes we hear, “Oh, I respect
him, he has strong convictions," or, "She is a woman with conviction.” Conviction is
evidenced when we become persuaded about something.
After that, passion needs to kick
in. Another word for passion is “enthusiasm.” Nothing of significance has ever
been accomplished in this world without enthusiasm. How enthusiastic are you
about your life? “Well, you haven’t seen the life that I live!” Well, change your
attitude! “How do I do that? I am the way that I am.” So change the way that
you are. “How do I do that?” Get into the Word of God! Get God’s perspective on
who you are, not who you think you are. Who you think you are and what you
think you can do will always be less than what God says. He sees something
bigger in you than you see, and He knows it’s there because He put it there. He
wants you to discover it through revelation so your perspective about your life
can change.
When you get God’s perspective,
there will be passion; there will be enthusiasm. Enthusiasm actually has the
root word, “entheos,” which in the Greek means,
“in God.” You can look it up, I did. You can find it in Merriam’s dictionary. In fact,
it literally means (this is Webster’s Modern Collegiate Dictionary; it’s not
even the old 1826 version): “belief in special revelations of the Holy Spirit.”
I almost got rocked out of my
rocker when I first read that! Belief in special revelations of the Holy Spirit!
The next definition--you’re going to love this one--is “religious fanaticism.” Ha!
It’s believing in the revelation that God has imparted to you by the Holy
Spirit. Do you believe in the revelation you’ve received? Do you believe in the
vision He’s given you? Bless God, if you do, then that ought to light a fire on
the inside of you. There ought to be some passion; there ought to be some
enthusiasm because God is in it!
Now that we have the passion, we
have to understand: there is a process. I’m doing some things today that God
started giving me the revelation on a few years ago. And let me tell you
something about my experience. I could have started acting on those things a
few years ago and messed everything up. Have you ever done that? I have. Sometimes
we adopt the attitude, “Well, God showed me this, it’s God, and I’m doing it!”
Maybe it isn’t God’s time! Maybe you have to go through a process.
All of the above are factors of walking
in God’s promises. It is my hope and prayer that we all begin to experience the
blessing of His promises in our daily lives in a greater degree. They’re all
there . . . we simply have to posture ourselves to receive.
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