You never know what you might find in Grandma's toy box. (this is not unlike my purse) My grandson found some binoculars and said, "hey Grandma, what's this?" So I told him it was used for seeing things far away and I showed him how to hold it up to his eyes. After telling him people use it to see birds and airplanes and such, he scampered off to the backyard.
He wasn't out there very long when he crawled through the dog door and announced, "Grandma, these binoculoos are broken." I held them up to my own eyes, and they seemed just fine to me. I took him out to the backyard and focused the binoculars on Puppy in the grass. "Now you try." And that's when I noticed it. Every time my grandson looked through the binoculars he was putting the larger end up to his eyes. That changed EVERYTHING!
We were both looking at the same thing but what we saw looked completely different! And that's how it is with perspective. Two people can go through the same experience and see things very differently. The reason is, is that everyone is different. We have a different way of viewing things. We have a different way of regarding situations and judging their relative importance, or our outlook or attitude is different.
There are some things that cloud our perspective. Some of us are looking through the lens of discouragement. Some of us are being disobedient to God's word. Sometimes bitterness clouds our judgement, or anger or hurt. Our perspective is very much a reflection of who we are and what we are feeling in our heart.
Man's natural way of viewing things is never the same as God's. Isiah 55:6-9 Satan tries to turn our binoculars around and mess with our perspective. He did it to Adam and Eve in the garden, when he hold them that God didn't want them to know everything that he did. And Satan is still at work in our lives today. When we hear a voice, "You are not enough." or "You will never get past that addiction" or "You will never heal from that relationship." Satan is trying to change our perspective away from what God's promises are.
I struggled for a long time trying to figure out how others couldn't see things like I did. And then I realized, from my four year old grandson, that all of our perspectives are flawed. It is God's perspective that is the one we should believe. The one we should listen to.
Maybe God is up there saying, "Hey turn those binoculars around." "If you could just see what I see, your heart would be free, your mind would be clear and everything would come into focus." And just like my Grandson, when he used the binoculars the right way, he exclaimed, "Oh grandma! everything looks so amazing!!!!