Earlier this week I could have sworn I had woken up on the battle field. After crawling out of bed I found myself face to face with crying children and chaos everywhere. Amy and I looked at each other over our half-empty coffee mugs wondering "what in the world is going on."

After I got to work (having left my brave wife with the war still waging in our house) I sat down exhausted and had that unbelievable need to read God's word. I knew this was a morning where perspective was in order, and so I opened up to Colossians 3.

"Since you have been raised to new life with Christ, set your sights on the realities of heaven, where Christ sits in the place of honor at God's right hand. Think about the things of heaven, not the things of earth. For you died to this life, and your real life is hidden with Christ in God."

I don't know about you but this is a hard thing to do. I get caught up in the here and now, the day in and day out, and many times I lose perspective on the reality of our world - that this is not all there is. Even now as I write this I have an office filled with my three kids and I'm wondering how in the world I am going to survive...

...but God is good, and my Savior has forgiven me and I will one day stand in His presence.

Here's another bit of perspective for us all:

"Even before he made the world, God loved us and chose us in Christ to be holy and without fault in His eyes. God decided in advance to adopt us into His own family by bringing us to Himself through Jesus Christ. This is what He wanted to do, and it gave Him great pleasure." Ephesians 1:4-5

Get this, the God of the universe (before there was a universe) decided to create you and I so that He could show loving kindness upon us because it gave Him great pleasure. He did not need us, but desired to display His love by sovereignly orchestrating the fall of man, Christ's sacrifice, and our redemption. AMAZING!

One day, because of Christ, we will stand in the presence of the One who created all things and now sits on His throne in heaven. This is the perspective me need, because no matter how hard things may become in our life...our future is Christ and Christ alone.

VISUAL PERSPECTIVE: "[God]Measured heaven with a span and calculated the dust of the earth in a measure?" Isaiah 40:12

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