From What View do you See?

No doubt you have experienced the panorama view from some mountain height. You see the signs along the mountain roads announcing the awesome view up ahead. You pull over, get out of your car and take in the breathtaking beauty of it all.

Somehow the beauty intensifies when you actually track up the mountain yourself. Hard work, sweat, fear, even danger… you get through all the perils and you make it to the top. Have you ever received such a reward?

Like a child looking over a spread of a toy train and miniature town… you amaze over the relative size and importance of things in a way which you never could from the grounds below. That towering building which seems so massive to the town down there now seems a mere dot. Even the big town is all but lost amid the spreading expanses. You consider yourself… how small… smaller than a speck of dust in the whole picture of the universe.

So it is when we climb “the Mount of God”. We see things in broader view and truer relationship. We begin to distinguish between the seemingly great and the true great.

Many of our seemingly big concerns engulf us, even paralyze us while we are still at the foot of the mountain. But now, sitting on the Mount of God, our problems surprising shrink into littleness as we now see them against the really big picture. We see now what we could not see while we were being swallowed up by our own small view.

Having a bird’s-eye-view could help us keep things into perspective and keep us out of self brought about trouble. How much more to have God’s-eye-view! From the mountain top of prayer we get a God’s-eye-view of everything. And it is marvelous how that makes many great things look small, and small things great; how all mere worldly ambitions look surprisingly poor, and heavenly ambitions the only ones worth having.

Many false estimates are rectified there. Our ambitions, plans, labors, worries, irritations, sorrows, cares, fall into their true proportions.

In our secret time of prayer… our communion with the Eternal Father… we are lifted above the world in which we daily mix and move; we begin to see things as they appear to the eye of heaven.

There is no greater view than the view from the Mount of God – God’s eye view.