Have you ever wondered what the world looks like from God’s point of view? Could it be like the view from an airplane?

Probably not. Maybe it’s more like looking at each one of us through the eyes of those around us… Maybe it just isn’t possible for us to conceive of such things.  Yes, I think that’s more likely.

In early ’04, I had a guy in my office who told me that he had died. He told me that while he was clinically dead, he left his body and found himself in a sort of courtroom where he had been shown what he likened to a video of his life.  At first it was a “video” of the sum total of all of his memories.  Then it became a video showing his life from the point of view of the people he had interacted with.  Since he had lived an evil life, this was very difficult for him, and he was reduced to a desperate state of begging for another chance at life to set things right.  He told me that he was “sent back” to a second chance, and that he was determined to do great things to help people in this borrowed time…

It has occurred to me that the “video” he described would be unsettling to most of us; certainly to me, as all of us have done things that we should not have done.  All of us have hurt people… Is that all God sees?  Does God have a ledger-book that lists our good and bad deeds?  Can we just simply work hard to have more credits than debits in that big ledger?

I don’t think so.

We do know that Jesus died for our sins, and for those of us who choose to accept Christ as our Savior our sins have been forgiven.   If God has a ledger, our account has been stamped “Paid in Full”   For those who have not yet accepted Jesus Christ, they can have forgiveness too if they will respond to the Gospel.

So for the Christian, what do you think God is seeing when He looks over the books at our lives as Christians? Changed lives, service of others and sharing the Good News? If God listens carefully, will He hear us praying, or will He hear nothing?

I’m sure that I need not say much else in this post; the message is obvious.  May He hear our prayers being offered to Him regularly and constantly, and may He always see our changed lives, selfless service and sharing of the Good News.