Key Lime Pie

I loaded down my crock pot last night with some deer meat and cut up an onion this morning. My youngest 2 children joined me in the kitchen just about the time my eyes were beginning to water and found me talking to myself. I said...."I'm going to turn this on high." Blaise, my sweetie and lover of anything sweet to eat, heard me say turn this on high, but seemed to hear "KEY LIME PIE." She asked me with a puzzled face and a look of happy anticipation "Key Lime Pie, Mom?"

She is working on rhyming words and I guess "turn on high...key lime pie..."and her mind took over. I immediately had a thought. That is just like us! We so often get offended, hear what we want to hear, or even take things totally out of context. This all in turn, can ruin a day, sabotage a relationship, and cause hurt feelings...all because our perspective takes over and the real truth of what was said or done flies out the window, so to speak!

Just a few minutes later, I asked the kids to help me take the sheets off of my bed. I got a blank stare and no response. I remembered the crock pot incident.....thought to myself, help them change their perspective of what I really want them to do. I waited a minute and then said "Hey, who wants to go and destroy Mom's bed and rip everything off it it." With a simple change in wording, my linens are now in the washer, and I did not do a thing. I "helped" my helpers by changing their view and opinion of the task at hand!

My prayer as we begin this new year that we have a TRUE perspective of the power of our Lord, Jesus Christ. The devil would love for us to misunderstand what the Lord is all about, confuse lies with the truth, and even plant seeds of bitterness by twisting the words of others. Our enemy's goal is to make us think that the Lord does not care and has quit working on our behalf, making us feel all alone. If we could ever really get it into our minds and hearts how BIG God is then we would see how small our problems are and that Jesus is involved!

Check your perspective today and get it in check with the TRUTH! Make sure what you hear, see, and do is based on the TRUTH!

What a shameful disappointment it would have been for my Blaise to expect a slice of key lime pie on her plate tonight all because of a misunderstanding!!!! How often does this happen to us as believers? We can live in the TRUTH!