PERSPECTIVE!

Today I was reading the obituaries in the local newspaper!  It is sad when that is the only thing in the newspaper worth reading.  But, that is for another blog!

I was noticing the ages of the deceased......92, 84, 69, 31, 63, 56, 51.....wait, I am 50!  50 is not old!  At least it is not from my perspective!  PERSPECTIVE is: the state of one's ideas, the facts known to one, etc., in having a meaningful interrelationship according to Dictionary.com.  The way we see things is our perspective.  Can our perspective change?  Can the FACTS as we see them change? 

After reading the newspaper I got up to look at FACEBOOK.  One of my friends posted this: Worry is negative meditation. Think about it. You just keep going over and over in your mind about the problem you're worrying about. The problem is your focus. The Bible tells us to meditate upon His Word both day and night so we will obey it. This puts the focus on the solution (God) rather than dwelling on the problem. 

Man, was that sobering!  The fact GOD instructs us to MEDITATE on HIS word is not so we can be WISE and know HIS word!  It is for our own good!  It is so we will not be focused on the problem!Depression is RAMPANT in today's society.  So many people, including me at times, tend to look at how BAD our problems are instead of putting my  "focus on the solution (God)" and trusting HIM rather than "meditate upon His Word both day and night".  I have meditated this since reading it and am of the opinion that the way we see things may be "just the way we see things"! 

92 is old to a 21 year old.  It is not that old to someone who is 85 years old!  How we perceive something does not make them FACT!  What GOD says is fact!  What GOD does is fact!  GOD does not change.