What window are you looking out of?

Church consultant Lyle Schaller once told the story about a young couple who rented a vacation cottage for a week. One afternoon the husband looked out a window at the swimming pool and exclaimed, “Let’s change our clothes and go get some exercise!” His wife, who was washing the dishes in the kitchen and looking out the window watching some people play tennis, quickly agreed. While she dressed for a tennis match, he put on his swimming trunks. The window a person chooses to look out at the world often determines that individual’s perception of reality.

Having differing perceptions resulted in this couple preparing for different experiences. Imagine, then, how confounding it is to have seven billion people on a planet pursuing their own perspectives! It is God’s intention that we be transformed so that when we look out at the world, it’s as if we’re looking through the eyes of Jesus, complete with His thoughts and heart. As Christians, the Word is the window we use to look out upon the world …

“For God knew his people in advance, and he chose them to become like his Son, so that his Son would be the firstborn among many brothers and sisters,” Romans 8:29.

“… But we understand these things, for we have the mind of Christ,” 1 Corinthians 2:16b.

When you look at the world, and the people in it, what window are you looking out of?

Scotty