问题:什么时候鸟儿比山还要大?答案:当鸟儿比山更靠近我们的时候。
事实上,鸟并没有比山还大,只是当那毛绒绒的鸟栖息在我的窗棂上,而山只是远距离外的一角时,它看起来好像就是这样。
有时候,当我们面临困境时,我们也会不知不觉地以这种眼光来看待上帝。近在咫尺的问题似乎很大,像一只有着尖尖的鸟喙大黑鸟,正贪婪地盯着小动物,只待小动物的疲倦渐转为无助,就一口把它吞下去。在这种时候,上帝似乎和在远方的山一样,在我们的视野中是如此的小和遥不可及。
先知以赛亚问了一些问题,来改变我们的视野。「谁曾用手心量诸水,用手虎口量苍天?用升斗盛大地的尘土,用秤称山岭,用天平平冈陵呢?」(40章12节)「疲乏的,他赐能力;软弱的,他加力量。」(29节)
就像一只鸟从来不会大过一座山,没有任何一个问题会大过上帝。问题是在于我们能否改变自己视野。JAL
每日遭遇的问题, 看似多过所能负; 直至转眼向耶稣, 知祂关心与看顾。Sper
上帝是如此伟大,无困难可与祂匹敌。
October 29,
2008
Perspective
He . . . sits above
the circle of the earth, and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers. —Isaiah
40:22
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 our 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: “Who has measured
the waters in the hollow of His hand, measured heaven with a span and calculated
the dust of the earth in a measure? Weighed the mountains in scales and the
hills in a balance?” (40:12). The Lord “gives power to the weak, and to those
who have no might He increases strength” (v.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. — Julie Ackerman Link
The problems that we
face each day Can seem too much to bear Until we turn our eyes to
Christ And trust His tender care. —Sper
We worship a God who
is greater than our greatest problem. |