Perspective

Isaiah 40:12-13
Isaiah 40:25-31


He giveth power to the faint; and to them that have no might he increaseth strength. Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall: But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.
Isaiah 40:29-31


Question : When is a bird bigger than a mountain?
Answer : When the bird is closer than the mountain.

In reality, the bird is not bigger than the mountain, but it sure looks that way when the feathery fellow is perched on my window ledge and the mountain is far away in the distance.

Sometimes we perceive God this way in relationship to ou problems. The troubles facing us seem huge because they are so close - like a big black bird with beady eyes and a sharp beak waiting for a smaller animal's weariness to turn into helplessness so it can devour it. At such times, God seems as far away as a distant mountain, and we perceive Him as being small and unreachable.

The prophet Isaiah changes our perspective by asking these rhetorical questions as quoted in Isaiah 40:12 and verse 29.

Just as a bird is never bigger than a mountain, no problem is ever bigger than God. It's all a matter of changing our perspective - by Julie Ackerman Link