Seeking Through Struggles: Perhaps It Is About Perspective?

Perspective is defined as: “The ability to see all the relevant data in a meaningful relationship.” Its origins come from the Latin word perspectīva, or per + spectīva, meaning “to look”.

I like to call myself a binary believer. It’s either a one or a zero, it’s on or it’s off, black or white; I don’t have room for maybe in my brain. That’s why I gravitated towards computers and technology. But over the years, I’ve seen so many people question why a computer did this or that – speaking about it as if it had a mind of its own. But what they don’t see are millions of lines of programming code resting on top of bare metal and silicon. Although the relationship is much more complex, there is always a reason. It’s just hard to see because they don’t understand the relationship.

Our relationship with God is much like this. We start out with infantile understandings of what He expects of us. It is when we define what our relationship with Jesus should look like in the context of what we know that cannot gain the necessary perspective to look past our circumstances. Only through persistently seeking a relationship with Him, can we begin to understand His purpose in our lives – His calling on our lives.

How much information do you need to make a decision? Are you a “show me” kind of person, get anxious about being asked to change, or doubt what you think you hear from God? Perspective is often a choice to believe in something for which there is no proof. This choice to believe in something without proof is faith.

Afterward the disciples asked Jesus privately, “Why couldn’t we cast out that demon? “You don’t have enough faith,” Jesus told them. “I tell you the truth, if you had faith even as small as a mustard seed, you could say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it would move. Nothing would be impossible. (Matthew 17:19-21, NLT)

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Seeking the Son is a website dedicated to the search for a more intimate relationship with Jesus Christ. Ken is also the founder of ChangeForge, a website focusing on the shifting paradigms of business and technology. To discover all of the places you can connect with Ken, please connect with him here.

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