So many times people ask me "How's life treating you?" and while I know it's just another way of saying hello and how are you? It's a little irritating inside me because I don't allow life to dictate my outcome or happiness.
Paul says in Ephesians 5:14-16 "14 Therefore He says, Awake, O sleeper, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall shine (make day dawn) upon you and give you light. 15 Look carefully then how you walk! Live purposefully and worthily and accurately, not as the unwise and witless, but as wise (sensible, intelligent people), 16 Making the very most of the time [buying up each opportunity], because the days are evil."
In the NKJV he says to walk "circumspectly"! Which says to me that I can step outside my circumstance and observe it from a different perspective. And if I can stand outside my life and look at it, I can then dictate it by my words and actions, not be dictated to by outside influences and actions. I'm not talking about an "out of body" experience, but a Heavenly Perspective Reality. A reality that transcends all the aches of the world around us and calls us to an alternate plane!
The Word says that Jesus was seated at the right hand of Majesty and that we are seated with Him in Heavenly places. So if I believe those statements, then there is no reason I should allow life to dictate my future and especially my happiness. Something that helps with this perspective shift is repentance! Now, I'm saying you are in sin, because I believe we are dead to sin and can't sin well! However, I continually Re-Pent almost everyday!
The continual repentance I am in is not from sin, but from mindsets that don't align with Kingdom Values. Everyday I am presented with realities that don't reflect Jesus' victory and my spirit leads me to a place of Re-Penting, that is Re-Aligning my view of life. Repent simply means "return to the penthouse perspective" the root of both words return us to a place where our view is from the top-down, not from down-up! Hope that makes sense; We can either stay on the ground with chickens and peck our way through life, eating whatever is thrown to us or we can take our Eagle perspective, get high above the situations of life and see how things should be from the standpoint of victory!
I'm not satisfied as I know you're not either to hang around with yard birds when I'm called to soar with War Birds. One other thing, chickens are food source because they eat what is at their feet, stay where they are put and can't get over the fence! Eagles love it where the air is thinner, the winds are stronger and they are predators! They hunt for their food and are not ok with eating whatever is laying around.
The perspective you desire is higher, the life you crave has resistance, but the rewards are great and far surpass just waiting around to see what gets thrown inside the fence everyday for you to deal with!
Rise above!
Hope this helps!
Barry Tubbs