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Having The Right Perspective

A few years ago my family spent a week in Nova Scotia. One evening, my Dad and I were standing outside, and we were literally squinting as we looked up at the night sky because of the multitude of stars that were out that night. With nearly no light pollution that far north I was able to catch a glimpse of the sheer magnitude of the universe God has made.

John Piper writes in his book, Don’t Waste Your Life, that “when you magnify like a telescope, you make something unimaginably great look like what it really is. With the Hubble Space Telescope, pinprick galaxies in the sky are revealed for the billion-star giants that they are. Magnifying God like that is worship….God created us for this: to live our lives in a way that makes Him look more like the greatness and the beauty and the infinite worth that He really is.”

Recently, one of the biggest lessons I have been learning is that, to truly live for Christ every day, we must have a correct view of the God that we serve.

In the moments that we stop and observe God’s creation around us, it should cause us to see how big God is and how truly small we are in comparison. He deserves our surrender, He deserves our worship, and He deserves every aspect of our lives. May we turn to Christ in surrender today, remembering how majestic He is, and seek to live for our Savior with the right perspective of His great worth.

Prayer: God, you are so great! Help me to remember your majesty. Thank you that you have given us glimpses of your glory. May we always treasure them as a reminder of your never ending love and power.