Hi, and welcome to Jesus Over Everything, a five-day-a-week variety show that mixes encouragement, the Bible, practical how-toes, and fantastic guests for the listener on the go.

I'm Lisa Whittle, and I welcome you to just five minutes with me, which I trust and pray will be five minutes well spent.

Oh, we made it to Friday. I never get tired of weekend feels, do you? Man, Fridays are pretty high on my list,

and today's Friday 5 is a good one for us, I think, especially if you heard Monday show about

that God perspective, seeing things from the right lens. How do we even do that? Well, the Friday

5 is here with some practical help, so let's go. So let's go. So let's go. So let's get into it. We want God's lens, not ours, his

perspective, not the way we've been seeing it. What do we do? Here are some things I think will help.

Number one, assess. Assess the moment, the issue, the thing we're seeing in a certain way. Do other people see it the

same way or maybe just us? Is it a knee-jerk reaction to something or a thoughtful and well-approached

response? I think we need to take a moment and assess. Number two, ask. Ask ourselves a hard question.

Is this attached to another issue that is coloring it?

Now, we can't take away all our past, all our experiences, and the way in which we view the world.

Some of that is our unique personality and past that we cannot undo. I get that. But if there's a

place we need healed in order to see things more correctly, It will start by first assessing, I think,

where we are with everything and then asking ourselves, and by the way, maybe even asking another

person, sometimes that's a good thing to do too. But we ask this, is this an issue from my past?

Is an issue from my past that is not healed coloring the way I see this. And I think often when we take that step back

and we ask that question, we'll find that in many cases, yes, it is. Number three, read, read the

word. What does the greatest guidebook on earth tell you about where your lens is right now? What would

God see himself in this situation?

There's really no bypassing the information you find in the word for how to have God's perspective.

Go straight to the source to find out. I mean, it is our wealth of information. It is our greatest

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