By Rev. Aidan Moon

A Matter of Perspective

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“When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers,
the moon and the stars, which you have set in place,
what is man that you are mindful of him,
and the son of man that you care for him?”

Yet you have made him a little lower than the heavenly beings
and crowned him with glory and honor.
You have given him dominion over the works of your hands;
you have put all things under his feet…

O Lord, our Lord,
how majestic is your name in all the earth!”

– Psalm 8:3-6, 9, English Standard Version

Lately, I have been meditating on perspective. 

A view of US AFA from Eagle’s Peak.

Perspective is everything. From a couple of thousand feet higher, the US Air Force Academy below looks a bit different. Even the stadium, which on this day had a packed parking lot for a game, was just a small glimmer.

I have a similar feeling early in the morning, before the rising sun obscures the stars, gazing up at countless galaxies, or in an airplane over the ocean, overwhelmed by the expanse of open space. I so often am caught up in the minute details of my life, and forget just how magnificent this creation is, and therefore how much more majestic its Creator is. I am so very small. This reality on its own is not comforting, but rather because I know that the Creator of the universe, for whatever reason, has chosen to value me. What am I, that the God of all things is mindful of me? Yet, in Christ, God is mindful of me. He calls me his child, His own by both creation and adoption into his family. And so what have I to fear? Thank God for this birds-eye view, a perspective that changes everything.

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