SEEKING GOD FROM HIS PERSPECTIVE

This week, I am exploring what God says about SEEKING HIM. As I enter prayer now, I reflect on God’s instruction: “Even now,’ declares the LORD, “return to me with all your heart, with fasting and weeping and mourning.” 

Lord, let me seek after You with all my heart.   

I pray I would hear from You as I seek You today. 

Let me consider the words of God from 2 Corinthians 5:16-21: 

So from now on we regard no one from a worldly point of view. Though we once regarded Christ in this way, we do so no longer. Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here! All this is from God, who reconciled us to Himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation: that God was reconciling the world to Himself in Christ, not counting people’s sins against them. And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation. We are therefore Christ’s ambassadors, as though God were making his appeal through us. We implore you on Christ’s behalf: Be reconciled to God. God made Him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in Him we might become the righteousness of God. 

There are two perspectives from which I can see the world:  from a worldly perspective and from God’s perspective.  However, I must seek God to gain His perspective. 

When I come to Christ, I gain God’s perspective.  If I am not seeking Him, then I may revert to my worldly ways; but if I seek Him alone, I can live His Abundant Life in a NEW creation.   

Jesus gave me the ministry of reconciliation—to help others come to Christ, so they too can see the world through God’s eyes. 

Lord, please use my life for the work of Your glory, so that others may see You at work. 

I am therefore Christ’s ambassador, seeking Him for the message He wishes me to carry to others, and serving Him with my whole heart. 

Father, thank You for reconciling me to You through Jesus Christ so that in Him I can also experience Your righteousness.  In Jesus’ Name, Amen.