A few weeks back I was carrying out some business consultancy with a youngish lad who had just started his own photography business. He was into commercial photography which entailed taking aerial photographs.

 

He did this by attaching the camera to a model aircraft and communicating wirelessly to the aircraft and his camera. He was an expert in controlling the model aircraft.

 

We were talking about the marketing opportunities available to him for the business. One such opportunity was to offer the aerial photography service to estate agencies selling houses. He showed me a photograph from an estate agent’s brochure of a pretty ordinary looking house – views from the back, the front, the garden etc. My friend had also taken a photograph of that house from the camera on his model aircraft and with the house in the foreground, there, just over a hill from the house, less than a mile away was a wonderful view of the sea, beaches and open countryside. It put the house in a totally different perspective and instead of making it look ordinary made it look very desirable.

 

Got me thinking…

 

So often we continue to miss the extraordinary and see only the ordinary. Many of us need to have a different perspective on life because at the moment we don’t see much going for us. Sometimes we need to get out of our usual ground level view on things and take a helicopter view. Sometimes we need to stop living “under the circumstances” and live “above the circumstances”

 

Jesus gave us some help with this – that is if you are prepared to accept what He said and His perspective. He said things like “God blesses those who realise their need for Him, for the Kingdom of Heaven is given to them” and “Come to me all of you who are weary and carry heavy burdens and I will give you rest”. What is more He demonstrated His authority for saying these things by carrying out amazing miracles when He lived on earth and said that after He dies and rises again, if we desire, we will have the Holy Spirit in us and will do even mightier things than He did. Wow!!

 

I need to have that different perspective on life – a perspective that certainly one of Jesus’ early followers had when he wrote “may you experience the love of Christ, though it is so great you will never fully understand it. Then you will be filled with the fullness of life and power that comes from God”.

 

How’s your perspective on life looking today? May be you need to look at it from a different angle.

 

Till next time…

Rich