Catching Whimsy: A 5-Day Devotional With Bob GoffSample

Day 4 – CHANGE YOUR PERSPECTIVE AND CHANGE YOUR EXPERIENCE

If I put a dot on a piece of paper, what would you see? Perhaps you have done this exercise before. For some, they would see the dot. Others would see the whole paper, and still others would see the hand holding it. If we want to live lives of impact, we need to look beyond the dot and even beyond the four corners of the paper and see God’s hand holding it all. Doing this is going to require that we develop the ability to zoom in and out of our lives.

Our eyes don’t come with zoom lenses like some cameras do, but our minds do. Zoom in on your life today and ask yourself what’s taking up a lot of space in your thoughts and why. If your finances are constantly on your mind, ask yourself what is going on that makes this such an important theme for you. What is making you feel unsettled, insecure, or vulnerable about your money situation?

Now zoom out and think about what God says about our finances and how He will take care of us no matter what. Do the same with each additional area of your life you can think of. Hover over your family, friends, and the issues of the day that matter the most to you. What do you see when you zoom in on your anxieties, and what do you realize when you zoom out and see the bigger reality?

The quality of the lives we live depends a lot on the perspective we bring to each experience. Perfect the art of zooming in to understand yourself and your thoughts and zooming out to see the bigger picture of what God is doing and saying.

Prayer:

God, what has been taking up space in my thoughts? Help me “zoom in” that I may see those things, then help me “zoom out” to see how you are at work – for your glory and for my good!

AMEN.