Just found a new book by an author I very much admire, Sarah Young. JESUS
CALLING, although new to me, was published in 2006. I have found her writing
helpful for some time now, ever since I ran across her book JESUS ALWAYS,
published ten years later. Sarah writes as if Jesus were speaking to us himself.
In her April 26th meditation from JESUS CALLING, he counsels us that “once your
perspective has been heightened, you can look away from the problem
altogether. Turn toward Me and see the Light of My Presence shining upon you.”
And psalm 89:15 says virtually the same thing: “Happy are the people who know
the joyful shout; LORD, they walk in the light from your face.”
Help me, dear Lord, to “rise above the fray,” as one high-ranking military officer
once counseled his nervous pastor. I need your “bird’s-eye view” over whatever
problem may be my worry de jour, whatever might be vexing me at the present
moment. Give me your vision of things sub specie aeternitatis, from your divine
perspective, not from my limited, frail, human myopia. On Easter Sunday,
Colossians 3:1-2 sends us the same message, loud and clear, short and sweet:
Since, then, you have been raised with Christ, set your hearts on
things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. Set
your minds on things above, not on earthly things.
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