Visiting family is something most look forward to. When we look forward to something or someone, we can easily become disappointed. Disappointment is part of life. If we try to avoid disappointment we will have to isolate ourselves from life. Our perspective determines our reactions to current situations
Ezra 3:12-13 (KJV) “But many of the older priests and Levites and family heads, who had seen the former temple, wept aloud when they saw the foundation of this temple being laid, while many others shouted for joy. No one could distinguish the sound of the shouts of joy from the sound of weeping, because the people made so much noise. And the sound was heard far away”
The older people in the above scripture had seen Solomon’s Temple. These who wept were about 65 years old and had looked upon the grandeur of what was and it disappointed and saddened them to what was becoming. The two generations born since then had not seen Solomon’s Temple and what they thought what they now gazed upon was wonderful through their perspective.
What we have seen determines much of how we feel and how we will respond to what we see. What is in our past so often determines our future. God can show us things in the Spirit and change our prospective forever. God can give us an eternal prospective that will forever change our outlook on life. As we grow and mature in the things of God and begin to see things through the word of God our view of the world and God’s people cannot help but to change.
There is a generation maybe two depending on how old you are that is watching how we respond; and still others that will be looking for definition of what they are currently seeing. This year I encourage you to look through the lens of the word of God so that God can use you to define to the world the correct revelation of what He is doing. Remember God is love and whatever He does it is because He loves us.
Ezra 3:12-13 (KJV) “But many of the older priests and Levites and family heads, who had seen the former temple, wept aloud when they saw the foundation of this temple being laid, while many others shouted for joy. No one could distinguish the sound of the shouts of joy from the sound of weeping, because the people made so much noise. And the sound was heard far away”
The older people in the above scripture had seen Solomon’s Temple. These who wept were about 65 years old and had looked upon the grandeur of what was and it disappointed and saddened them to what was becoming. The two generations born since then had not seen Solomon’s Temple and what they thought what they now gazed upon was wonderful through their perspective.
What we have seen determines much of how we feel and how we will respond to what we see. What is in our past so often determines our future. God can show us things in the Spirit and change our prospective forever. God can give us an eternal prospective that will forever change our outlook on life. As we grow and mature in the things of God and begin to see things through the word of God our view of the world and God’s people cannot help but to change.
There is a generation maybe two depending on how old you are that is watching how we respond; and still others that will be looking for definition of what they are currently seeing. This year I encourage you to look through the lens of the word of God so that God can use you to define to the world the correct revelation of what He is doing. Remember God is love and whatever He does it is because He loves us.
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