Perspective

I know I talked a little about this last week before service, but I want to take a look at perspective. I wrote in a previous post about milk and honey and a little about 2009. I truly wish for each of you it will be a year that you enter into the promised land personally and relationally. But sometimes our outlook or perspective can keep us from what God has for us. Take a look at Numbers 14:1-4:

Num 14:1-4
Then all the people began weeping aloud, and they cried all night. 2 Their voices rose in a great chorus of complaint against Moses and Aaron. "We wish we had died in Egypt, or even here in the wilderness!" they wailed. 3 "Why is the LORD taking us to this country only to have us die in battle? Our wives and little ones will be carried off as slaves! Let's get out of here and return to Egypt!" 4 Then they plotted among themselves, "Let's choose a leader and go back to Egypt!" NLT

First, Death is something we fear. We always keep it ahead of us, sometimes it seems we look to it as our future more than we look for life. Maybe we feel that death is the only thing we can be sure of. Notice in this passage they either a) would have died in Egypt, or b) will die in battle. Life and that more abundant does not seem to be an option that they choose to believe, even though the Lord told them He wants to take them to someplace great and bless them and give them long life in the land He is giving them.

Then they decide, that if they are gonna die anyway, they would rather die comfortable instead of fighting for what has been promised to them. Think about this, they have already chosen to give up and not even go for what is theirs, they are defeated before they begin and they want to take what seems like the easy way out! Do we do that? Do we opt for the more comfortable way, even if we feel like it will end in failure? kind of a "you're doomed if you do and you're doomed if you don't" approach?

Let me encourage you, beleive what He said He will do, and go out fighting for it. It's worth it in the end. Sometimes, you just need to have the right perspective.