Matthew 16:21-23 (GW)

21 From that time on Jesus began to inform his disciples that he had to go to Jerusalem. There he would have to suffer a lot because of the leaders, the chief priests, and the experts in Moses’ Teachings. He would be killed, but on the third day he would be brought back to life.

22 Peter took him aside and objected to this. He said, “Heaven forbid, Lord! This must never happen to you!”

23 But Jesus turned and said to Peter, “Get out of my way, Satan! You are tempting me to sin. You aren’t thinking the way God thinks but the way humans think.”

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Isaiah 55:6-9 (GW)

6 Seek the LORD while he may be found. Call on him while he is near.

7 Let wicked people abandon their ways. Let evil people abandon their thoughts. Let them return to the LORD, and he will show compassion to them. Let them return to our God, because he will freely forgive them.

8 “My thoughts are not your thoughts, and my ways are not your ways,” declares the LORD.

9 “Just as the heavens are higher than the earth, so my ways are higher than your ways, and my thoughts are higher than your thoughts.”

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Aspiring to think God‘s thoughts seems to be all about perspective.

“Perspective” — “true understanding of the relative importance of things”

What is God’s perspective? What does God see as being all-important?

I’d like aim to answer that — at least in part — over the next few podcasts.

Here’s the first proposition:

1) You share God’s perspective when you know you are supremely valuable to him and that so is every human being from conception and on into eternity, regardless of character or behavior — yours or theirs.

The evidence that you know this?

You never allow anything you see or hear or experience to in anyway diminish your sensitivity to how valuable you are or another person is to God.