I have discovered over the years, that only as I see things from Christ, through the grid of His eyes, am I able to know the truth about anything. It is important to know the truth about a thing because it’s the truth that sets us free. If we don’t see the truth, instead of freedom, we will live in the continual bondage of fear, resentment, and shame. It is imperative that we learn to see things from Christ, from the inside out. The apostle John’s testimony of Jesus is, “In Him was life, and the life was the light of men.” Psalm 36:9 says, “For with You is the fountain of life; in Your light we see light.” Jesus’s life is the light of men, and therefore only in relationship with Him can we see anything “in the light of day”. Because of our union with Christ, we get to live from Him, not just for Him, and therefore in His light (how He sees things), we get to see things. Jesus is the truth, and therefore you cannot know the truth about anything, not the full truth, apart from the lens of His redemptive vision.
Jesus is the Redeemer, and therefore, you can’t interpret the past, even your own past, apart from His redemptive activity. History truly is “His- Story!” In particular, on a personal level, He purchased my story. It’s been weaved into His redemptive plan for my life and through the lens of that truth (His truth) there is no room for shame.
The things that we fear fade into a place of peace when we see them through the eyes of the One who has peace about them. In “light” of His peace, we can be at peace because we are one with Him.
The resentment that we harbor because people have hurt or disappointed us disappears into forgiveness and love for them as we see them through the eyes of Christ, who not only loves them but uses their actions toward us to propel us toward our destiny of being conformed to the image of Christ. Through His eyes, we are able to see the truth that they didn’t rob us of life’s best, but instead, Jesus redeemed their actions by using them to transform us into His image.
As we view the events of the world around us through the eyes of Christ, we realize “the truth” that the enemy isn’t winning, instead, Christ is reigning, and His kingdom is advancing.
“And this is the message we have heard from Him and announce to you, that God is light, and in Him there is no darkness at all. If we say that we have fellowship with him and yet walk in the darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth.” 1 John 1:5.
Living from Christ, loving from Christ, and seeing everything through the lenses of Christ is to live in the freedom and glorious liberty of the children of God.