Day 05: Seeing Life from God's View

We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.
-Anais Nin

Often I wonder, what is life with God? What is it like to be in heaven? Those who had passed away, I imagine them in heaven, with all the angels and saints. They're singing melodic hymns of worship and praise. They're eternally at bliss never worrying what tomorrow shall bring. They've reached the finest hours of their life. They've reached nirvana and there's no turning back. It's like an eternal climactic point, no falling action and no resolution. It's endured finality. And every time it reaches my mind, I can't help but think about death. Seriously! But I realized wouldn't that kind of life be totally boring? I mean, souls alike would just be doing the same things over and over again. I guess I have overlooked something: that God is a timeless and spaceless God.

The way I think and reason out is not the way how God's mind operates. His is far more superior that I cannot imagine how it works. I cannot oversimplify things. What I imagine to be heaven may not be the real heaven at all. I know it's always better. And there's no way I could understand it right now.

In the same way, the manner I look at my life right now and the circumstances I'm in is not parallel with how God views it. I see it negatively; He sees it as positive. I feel I was abandoned and forsaken; He wants to make me feel that He's with me all the time. I feel I am betrayed; He is telling me He loves me. My points of view are always contradictions of His'. And unless I realized those, I would never ever align myself to Him. Unless I see that life as a test and a trust and that I am continuously being pressed for my enrichment, I would never understand my circumstances and would never see His magnificent plan for me.