Lens of Christ

Whenever I write a blog, I always want to be real and extremely transparent.  With that being said, I’ll admit that these past couple of weeks hasn’t been the easiest for me.  Sometimes looking at certain situations around you can be so draining.  Sometimes it just sucks the joy out of everything when things just aren’t going your way.  Truth be told, this is exactly how I’ve been feeling lately.  But I realized life has been feeling like this only because I allowed it to be.  I wasn’t looking at my circumstances through the lens of Christ and because of that this beautiful gift called life has been feeling like a dry desert. 

Colossians 3:1-2 says

“So if you’re serious about living this new resurrection life with Christ, act like it. Pursue the things over which Christ presides. Don’t shuffle along, eyes to the ground, absorbed with the things right in front of you. Look up, and be alert to what is going on around Christ—that’s where the action is. See things from his perspective.” 

The highlight of this entire scripture is when Paul mentions for us to see things from his perspective!  So many times we look at our present situations and think that it’s the worst that it could ever be, when really God has been trying to get your attention to assure you that all will be ok.  God will never allow his children to go through a storm and not carry them through.  He has your name written in the palm of his hands (Isaiah 49:16).  There’s no way that he can ever forget about you and the situation that you’re in!  Often times we can prolong the uncomfortable seasons we’re in.  Instead of handing the situation over to God, we try to figure things out in our own “strength” and our own “understanding” which can lead us into the wrong direction.  We have to learn how to give our burdens onto God and follow HIS LEADING. 

As I mentioned earlier, I was not looking at my current situations through the perspective of Christ.  Instead, I was allowing my emotions to control my actions and it made me frustrated.  I felt like I was in a place where nothing was ever going to change.  But this morning God spoke to me through Ecclesiastes 11:4, which reads, “He who observes the wind [and waits for all conditions to be favorable] will not sow, and he who regards the clouds will not reap.”   I realized that I was just waiting for the storms to pass.  I was waiting for all the conditions to go back to normal.  I was waiting for everything to fall back into place naturally. But where was my work?  How was my faith being put to exercise so that I could reap the benefits of being a faithful servant?  I realized this morning where my problem was.  I wasn’t working at all.  I was too busy looking at circumstances from a natural vantage point instead of wearing the lens of Christ.  I was letting my emotions take the best of me instead of attaching them to the word of God as my Pastor would say.  But today that will change for me and I hope that it will change for you also if you are in my situation.  No longer will we just sit back and allow the enemy to flash trials in our faces as a way of torment.  Instead, we will work and exercise our faith! We will see things in the eyes of the spirit and start claiming the rights that are ours as Kingdom Citizens.

Lamentation 3:30-31 says that the worst is never the worst because the Master won’t ever walk out and fail to return.  When we begin to understand this and look at our lives through the perspective of Christ, looking past what the natural presents itself with, we’ll realize that we truly have AMAZING lives, with AMAZING testimonies.  So let’s cheer to exercising our faith to view life through the lens of Christ!

Love you all! Xoxo

-Jan