Perspective Through Love
As I sit here this morning, wrestling a bit with my stomach but pressing through my work, I find myself thinking about perspective. How two people can look at the same situation and see two completely different things — and neither one is necessarily wrong. It’s all about perspective.
Jesus calls us to “love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind,” and He follows it with, “love your neighbor as yourself” (Matthew 22:37–39). Notice it doesn’t say agree with your neighbor — it simply says love them.
And real love carries with it understanding, patience, and grace. When we start from a place of love, we open the door for understanding someone else’s perspective. We stop reacting and start listening. We realize that sometimes, when someone responds differently than we would, it’s because they’re seeing through a lens shaped by their own experiences, their season, or their pain.
Taking time to understand a brother’s or sister’s perspective helps us grow. It may even reveal that our own perspective wasn’t entirely right. Or it might just help us better love them where they are.
Even in Scripture, what speaks to me today may speak differently to someone else tomorrow — not because God’s truth changes, but because we are in different seasons of life. When we share our perspectives, we help each other prepare for the seasons to come.
There’s not “my truth” or “your truth.” There’s only God’s truth.
But within that truth, there is space for love, grace, and perspective — space for us to see one another through the eyes of Christ.
-Rev Carlos Figueroa
