A friend of mine recently came over for a visit and brought her six year old daughter with her. This adorable little girl is full of bouncy energy. I love being around her. She is what a smile would look like if a smile was a person. Her mother is a great friend to me as well. As her mother and I talked, this little girl played around and entertained herself. I made tea and my friend and I settled in to talk. I have a small world globe on a base on a table in my living room. The little girl picked it up and began to play with it. Eventually, she began asking her mother questions. Her mother took the globe, turned it upside down, and said "Sometimes it's helpful to look at things a different way." She turned South Africa to the Northern Hemisphere. "See, doesn't it look strange?" As we talked about how funny it looked, and why we always look at it the same way, I asked the little girl how she thinks God sees the world. She took a look at the globe, now upside down, and put her hand over the top of it. "I think He sees it this way, cause His hand is always over it all the time."
Now that's a different perspective that how I sometimes look at the world. Who is in control? Sometimes it doesn't seem like God. It seems like everything but God is in control, but that's not true. This little girl reminded me that, like her mother said, it is good to look at things in a different way, not the worldly way, but how God sees it, right in His hand. Such great wisdom form a person who doesn't even have front teeth, but has a heart that trusts and believes. Awesome.
