Our favourite walking place in Timaru is Caroline Bay, and I make it a habit to take a picture and share it on Facebook with a Bible verse.
I want to inspire and encourage my friends through a Bible verse or quotation I have reflected on while we walked and talked.
Additionally, posting on Facebook is a quick way to share some Scriptural thoughts and inspiration at the start or end of the working day. Writing an entire blog post takes time.
Sometimes I wonder how many more photos I can post before my friends notice I’m posting scenes from the same walking place.
However, it doesn’t matter because something new awaits us each time we walk. Yes, the view is always unique with every visit.
It’s the same place, but something unique and new is always there. How can that be?
Through my life experiences and faith journey, I learned that life is always a matter of perspective and attitude.
Perspective in the sense that I no longer see things as what I wanted to happen, planned, and expected them to be.
I see life through the lens of how the Lord God presents it to me, His love, and His mercies, which are always new each day.
Attitude comes from the joy of discovering and appreciating what God presents each day, making life exciting.
Haven’t we grown weary from the constant burden of seeing things from our perspective and only present to God when we get into trouble?
I know I had, and that’s why I’ve decided to surrender all to God all the time.
28 “Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. 29 Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. 30 For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.”
Matthew 11:28-30
Let us make God our constant and default “go-to” person.
During a reflective moment, I pondered my greatest accomplishment in life.
I realised that my most significant achievement is finding life’s greatest gift, and I enjoy it like never before.
What is it, you may wonder? Have you discovered it as well?
The photos and their accompanying verses in this post illustrate the point I’m presenting.
You might have noticed that the three pictures are reflection photos, and the verses are reflective, too, as all are.
Through the years of searching, I have found that the greatest gift a person can have is the ability to see and live life from God’s perspective.
It is like what Paul says in Galatians 2:20 – “I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.”
It may sound ironic and paradoxical, but being “crucified with Christ” is crucial to experiencing the life that Jesus Christ offers. It means being transfixed into living in love and forgiveness as Christ is.
It is also like what Jesus said in Matthew 6:33 – “But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.”
Jesus Christ clearly said that it is not only “seeking the kingdom of God”. One must seek his righteousness, as well.
It is both the kingdom of God and his righteousness for “all these things” to be added unto you.
The remarkable thing about this priceless treasure is that it is available to anyone who yields to God’s sovereign power.
As I commit my life to continue to reflect the light of Jesus Christ and shine it on His people, I keep in mind the Apostle Paul’s exhortation in Philippians 3:12-15.
12Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already been made perfect, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me. 13Brothers, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, 14I press on toward the goal to win the prize of God’s heavenly calling in Christ Jesus.
15All of us who are mature should embrace this point of view. And if you think differently about some issue, God will reveal this to you as well. 16Nevertheless, we must live up to what we have already attained.
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