“I know that my redeemer lives…” Job 19:25

Rain fell steadily as he left for work…

But armed with an umbrella and wearing a raincoat, he walked anyway…

Just as he did every day.

Everyone in town town knew him…

They all knew he walked to work every day.

People were amazed.

“Walking all the way from the other side of town!” they said.

“At his age!” they said

“He’ll live forever!”

“All the way from the other side of town” sounds like such a long way.

You may be wondering how far he actually walked…

The answer: Maybe three-quarters of a mile.

When your whole town is only a couple of miles from one end to the other… three quarters of a mile is a quite a distance.

It all depends on your perspective.

Perspective matters in so many things.

Consider Job…

Job’s wife focused on his problems…

“Give up!” she told him…

His wife said to him…Curse God and die!” Job 2:9

His friend, trying to look at things from God’s perspective, told him…

“But if it were I, I would appeal to God; I would lay my cause before him. He performs wonders that cannot be fathomed, miracles that cannot be counted…” Job 5:8-9

But how can we see life from the perspective of a God who performs “wonders that cannot be fathomed”?

Whose very thoughts we cannot understand?

“For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, declares the LORD.” Isaiah 55:8

There is one way and one way alone to see from God’s perspective … 

To look through the eyes of faith…

Faith that lets us see with Job beyond our circumstances…

Though he slay me, yet will I hope in him; Job 13:15

Faith that lets us say with Job…

I know that my redeemer lives, and that in the end he will stand on the earth.  Job 19:25