Everyone sees things from their own perspective. When you meet a dentist, he/she may instinctively look at your teeth. A mechanic may listen to how your car sounds and hear every problem. The guy who sells floor coverings will look down at your floor. A car salesperson will try really hard to sell you a new vehicle when he sees your old car. Our particular perspective on life is shaped by who we are and what we do.
 
How do our perspectives affect us when trouble comes? In Isaiah 6, Isaiah wrote this: “In the year Uzziah died, I saw the Lord.”  The loss of the leader of the nation of Israel caused Isaiah to turn to the Lord. His perspective, based on his life as a prophet of Jehovah, was to see this loss, this crisis, through God’s eyes. He “saw the Lord” instead of the tragedy.
 
What do losses do to us? Where do they turn us? Those are the real questions of life. On what am I really depending? On what foundation am I really building my life?
 
Difficult things show us what’s inside.  Sometimes God allows these difficult things for us to reveal our perspective, to learn about ourselves and to learn about Him. He wants to be number 1,  and number 2… and number 3. For Jesus to be Lord in our lives,  He must be EVERYTHING.
 
What do you see in times of trouble? Is He your everything? Can you say with Isaiah, “I saw the Lord?”
 

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