Perspectives of Proximity
How close you are determines your perception
I saw a dragonfly in the sky nearby as it flew close to me;
then I saw a bird in the distance
that looked the same size to be.
Looking higher I viewed a plane —
the same size I see.
All three seemed to be alike to me.
Then I realized that proximity determines perspectives.
Perceptions vary in reality,
how big or small they appear to my eyes.
How close
or how far away
determines what is real and what is not.
My problems are minor in light of God’s power.
I am weak and He is strong.
If He did the greatest for me,
How small are my issues
He can solve.
My perspective dwindles in size
compared to His supersonic plane for me,
viewing eternity in this plain plan of my life.
If God did the greatest for me,
can He not also solve little things for me?
A fortiori
God’s Everlasting Love
“What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, how will he not also with him graciously give us all things? Who shall bring any charge against God’s elect? It is God who justifies. Who is to condemn? Christ Jesus is the one who died — more than that, who was raised — who is at the right hand of God, who indeed is interceding for us.
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword? As it is written,
“For your sake we are being killed all the day long;
we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered.”
No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.”
— Romans 8:31–39
