Your Moment at the Well
The Lord’s insight. Focus on the Lord to see yourself as you really are.
Isaiah 55:8-9: “For My thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways My ways, says the Lord.”
Isaiah 56:1-2: “Thus says the Lord, keep justice and do righteousness. For My salvation is about to come, and My righteousness is about to be revealed. Blessed is the man who does this, and the son of man who lays hold on it.”
During Noah’s time, scripture says the Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intent of the thought of man’s heart was only to do evil continually. The Lord was sorry He made man – well everyone but Noah. Noah it is said “found grace in the eyes of the Lord.” (Genesis 6:8).
When we look around today, we should wonder about the things we do as people. We didn’t live in Noah’s time but part of me believes Noah would have pulled his hair out at some of the things we do. We don’t just have wicked thoughts and ideas; we turn what is right into what we call evil.
Now we wouldn’t say our own thoughts are wicked or evil. But we would quickly say yours are. We wouldn’t say we are wrong about much, but we would quickly point out how wrong you are. We do this because we don’t look within to learn how to see out. We use what we see outwardly in others to make others reflect on how bad they must be within.
I don’t believe this is the Way of the Lord. If we really want to see others as they are, we must learn to focus on seeing ourselves the way the Lord sees us. The thoughts we have should be the thoughts He has but this is not so for many of us. The ways we go about life are not the Way He goes about life.
The Lord’s perspective about Himself and about us is different from our perspectives about Him and ourselves. Perspective is more than what we think; it is the way we think about the things we think about. Seeing clearly is different for the Lord and for us.
The Lord cleans our heart and our minds so we can see clearly what is before us. But we will spend all our time trying to clean what is before us using an unclean heart and mind. His ways and thoughts are not ours. Faith and belief in the Lord cause the faithful to look within themselves to find understanding for what they see outside of themselves.
With the unbeliever, it’s the opposite. They look at what you are doing to make you see how different and how better they believe themselves to be. Such a view and perspective bring sorrow to the Lord because we cannot accurately see out until we clean what is within.
If you want to see yourself as you really are, learn to use the heart and eyes of the Lord as the lens for how you look at others. And if you want to see others as they really are, learn to use the heart and lens of the Lord to see what is inside of you.
The Lord knows we do not listen to Him. In fact, we will argue with Him about what He says to keep Him from looking on the things we do and say. This is a twisted way of seeing and believing. I believe one of the reasons we fall to a twisted sense of what is true and right today is because we believe it is more likely others are more wrong than they are right and that we are more right than we are wrong.
But we are not the standard for what is right and wrong. we must stand on what is just – not simply for man, but what the Lord says is Just. Then we must do that which is righteous, not before man, but before the Lord.
Change your perspective and you will be blessed because you will lay hold of the very thing the Lord found in Noah that caused Him to give Noah grace in a time where wrath was what everyone had earned.
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