Who's Position?

We tend to see our own position, rather than God's!

This is a quote I pulled out of this week's lesson from The Truth Project because it made a big impact on me.

In the video lesson, Del Tackett, shared a college football story with us. He said he was at a championship college football game and in the last few seconds of the game, the opposing team threw a pass into the end zone. Immediately, all of the opposing fans stood up, threw their arms up into air, and yelled TOUCHDOWN! In contrast, the home team fans, in the same instance stood up, waved their arms out in front of them, and yelled NO GOOD!

Del wanted to know how all of these people, having just saw the same play, could come to two completely different conclusions of what had just taken place. Then, he related this to how we respond to life by saying, "We tend to see our own position, rather than God's." I wrote the words in my notebook because I could see how often I did this in my own life.

This simple quote can explain our actions in many different circumstances. It explains why we spend money the way we do, why we get divorced, why we use birth control, why we convince ourselves abortion is okay, why we steal from others, why we disobey our parents, why we argue with our spouses, why we seek out our own needs instead of helping others, etc. We tend to view our decisions based on our own position, on our own limited view or perspective.

We have an all knowing, all seeing, all powerful God who has a much broader, much bigger perspective than we could ever come close to having. We cannot understand what God knows or sees because we are nothing compared to him. But, it's that lack of understanding that tells us we must trust in ourselves and what we know. We make decisions based on our limited knowledge of the situation. And, we always get it wrong, don't we?

Imagine how different our choices would be if we asked for God's perspective, God's knowledge, and God's direction in every situation! Imagine if we really trusted God to have all the right answers because he sees the bigger picture that we can't! Imagine the blessings we throw away because we didn't look to God for the direction to proceed or the damage we create because of the path we chose.

I know I've screwed up in this area tons of times in my life. I can see the results of my decisions outside of God's plan, and they're not good. Knowing me, I'll probably make many more decisions based on my position, rather than God's - but I hope not! I hope I can get over myself and really trust in the Lord I KNOW is that big! I hope you can, too!