So that's your point of view?

Since we believe that Christ died for all, we also believe that we have all died to our old life. He died for everyone so that those who receive his new life will no longer live for themselves. Instead, they will live for Christ, who died and was raised for them. So we have stopped evaluating others from a human point of view. At one time we thought of Christ merely from a human point of view. How differently we know him now! This means that anyone who belongs to Christ has become a new person. The old life is gone; a new life has begun! (2 Corinthians 5:14-17 NLT)

Since we believe - prior to our point of believing in Christ as our Savior, we merely saw him from a human point of view. We interpreted everything in scripture from a human point of view. We saw nothing divine in him, nor did we really understand why the commandments given to us in scripture could actually be for our benefit and blessing. 

When we see God's Words from a merely human point of view, the things God asks his children to avoid, as well as the things he asks them to embrace seem a little far-fetched and maybe even a little too 'old fashioned' or 'restrictive'. The moment we ask Christ into our lives our point of view begins to change. He gives us a hunger for his Word, and we begin to desire to understand how this 'stuff' contained within its pages applies to our lives.

The point of view we maintain moving forward in life is important, isn't it? We can merely look at life through the set of lenses known as 'human reasoning' or 'human understanding'. These ways of viewing life are determined by what we have learned, who we have trusted, and what came out of those experiences we have had along the way. It doesn't factor in a 'spiritual' point of view - we don't see life through the eyes of Christ.

The moment we say yes to Jesus, our point of view begins to change. We begin to see, hear, and interpret things through a new set of 'filters' or 'lenses'. These are spiritual in nature and are much more reliable than our human point of view. Is it possible we hold on too tightly to our human vantage point? Is it possible we could see things just a bit differently if we began to ask Jesus to give us the insight we lack from that vantage point? You bet! Jesus' point of view is both divine and human.

He knows why his Father gave us those instructions to live by - he knows what it is within our human nature that needed those boundaries. He also knows just how much the temptations of this world around us can make us vulnerable and sometimes even quite gullible. We come to 'know' Jesus, not just 'know about' Jesus. We develop a more reliable 'point of view' than we had apart from him. There is no better foundation than to be 'in him'. There is no better or safer vantage point, either. Just sayin!