What's your perspective ??

What do you see in this picture ??


Do you see white birds or black ones? Which way are they flying, right or left? Is it day or night ? Are the birds really birds or are they part of the landscape ?

What's your perspective ?

When i first saw this piece of Art i saw the white birds flying to the right, but there was something weird about it, like i wasn't seeing the full picture or something, so i looked in more detail and saw the black ones flying to the left. Then i noticed that some of the birds aren't even birds their just bird shaped fields. And after all that i saw that it's day on one side of the picture and night on the other. Funny isn't it ! How many different ways you can look at something and get a completely different view of it, a different opinion maybe ??

Life is a lot like this picture, there's day and night and in each there are different images. There's light with detail / shadows with outlines. Some things are exactly what they look like, some are just shapes of what we think they are.

Depending on what your focussing on and where your priorities are, will cause you to see things differently to what you may have seen if you looked a bit harder.

First impressions aren't always what they seem ...

It might be like that for you at the moment, are you looking at a situation the wrong way ? Have you only taken a quick glance at it and made up your mind, have you had a little look into it and seen both sets of birds but given up on seeing anything else? Or have you delved into it, inspecting every side, both light and dark, good and bad ?

Sometimes we get so wrapped up in our situations we look at them the wrong way, with the wrong perspective ! We try to find a constant in it and panic and struggle when we don't get one. When things go wrong we look to find comfort in something or someone. Unfortunately there is no constant in life, because everything changes, people, places etc.

But there is 1 constant ... God !

Read through Isaiah 40 v 12 - 31 - Awesome !

Our life is always going to change, we will be challenged and moved around, the direction in our life may change, our family, our careers, our finances, our relationships even, but God remains constant through it all.

You may think that God has changed for you, you used to have a good relationship with him, but its different now. You may be going through tragedy in your life, family circumstances or health issues and you wonder how God can let those bad things happen. You may have made some mistakes over and over again and think God's feelings towards you have changed ...

They havn't !! God is constant - He cannot change !

You just need to change the way your looking at the situation, and how your perceiving it. You will see different things from God at different points in your life, It's not that God is changing, It's that you and your life are changing. We were never meant to stand still, we were born to grow and experience life ! So even when it changes and throws us off balance, God is there, our never changing hero, our constant to keep hold of and find our balance again !

So how are you looking at the situation you're in right now?

Do you need to make God the constant in your life ?

Sammi :)