My daughter Aleeya and I recently had some fun taking pictures of our reflections in the handle of a spoon. Depending on the angle, you can get some fun and crazy distortions. I’m sure this is something you all do while you’re sipping your hot chocolate too, right?
It got me thinking…imagine what I would think of the world if I truly saw everything reflected off the handle of a spoon. I would run into things, trip, and fall down. I might see stuff that looks pretty weird or even scary due to how distorted the handle makes things look.
My view of the world and your view of it might be drastically different. After all, we don’t own identical spoons. And we might even have some sharp disagreements about what we think we see and how to deal with it.
I see this very thing happening in our world today. Folks are looking at the world reflected off different spoons, depending on who they follow on social media and what news channel they watch.
As Christians, our view of the world should come from Scripture. The Bible is straight and true. We get a look at things as God intended when we look into His Word.
Every opinion we form, stance we take, word we speak, and action we make should be in alignment with the way of Jesus found in Scripture: love God, love your neighbor. Love is intended to be the marker of Jesus’ disciples.
John 13:35: “All people will know that you are my followers if you love each other."
If you find yourself slipping out of a place of lovingkindness, adjust your view. Dump the spoon and pick up the Bible. Look at Jesus as our example of how to live.
Hebrews 12:1-2: “Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross…”
The author of Hebrews must have been thinking of us in 2021 when he wrote this! We carry weight! Sin wants to cling to us! We need endurance! The only way to endure is to keep looking at Jesus, the living Word of God.