How do you get God's perspective?

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How do you get God's perspective? For example, when you look behind me, what do you see? A fire, right? But what else do you see? Not talking about the fireplace or the screen protecting it. What do you see? We'll come back to that in a moment after studying God's perspective because in the Bible, Jesus is teaching to this large group of people who are focused on not having enough. And when he sees that they're stuck looking at life one way, he helps them try to see God's perspective. Jesus says, "Do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink, or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes?" So, first, he's challenging them to be grateful for the things that they do have over the things that they don't have. For example, it'd be silly if I said, "I wish I had a fire." You'd say, "You already do." But because I'm looking at the wrong thing, I'm missing what I do have. And Jesus is asking us to simply change perspective. And then he tells the people there to do the same. "Look at the birds of the air. They do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they?" So, he's challenging them to look at something normal and see how God takes care of them. And then, he tells them to look at the flowers. "See how the flowers of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. But, if that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you?" So, he's taking normal, ordinary things and challenging us to see God in it. Now, we might look at a bird and look at a flower and say, "I guess you could make that connection, but I'm just seeing a bird and a flower." But God challenged my perspective this morning. When you look at that fire, how else could you label it? Orange, heat, moving. Our brains are quick to label things in the way that most people would recognize it. But what if there's a way to get God's perspective when looking at any situation? How would we do that? Well, Jesus says, "Seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well." What if we could simply get God's perspective by training ourselves to see him first in everything. So, I could see a fire, or I could see how God blessed us with a home, heat to keep us warm in winter. I know it's not natural for us to do that. But do you know that that's what the Bible is doing? Training us to get God's perspective. It says, "All scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting, and training in righteousness." Remember, seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, "so that the servant of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work." The Bible's where we get God's perspective that he loved us so much that when we messed everything up, he sacrificed himself to pay for our mistakes so that we can come back into a relationship with him by believing in him and committing to following his ways. So, we get that perspective by reading scripture, bringing it all to God in prayer, but then also applying God's perspective to our daily life. What are ways that you get God's perspective? And let us know, how can we be praying for each other today, friends? God bless.