In 1930, Elm Farm Ollie became the first cow to fly in an airplane.

OK, this is a stretch, but imagine you’re Ollie, the first cow to fly in an airplane. You’ve returned to earth and are back in the herd (go along with it now), trying to explain your experience to the other cows—Daisy, Bessie, Mookie . . . the whole gang. All they’ve ever known is the farm, the barn, and the field. And every day’s schedule looks the same: get up, give milk, eat grass, return to the barn. But you’ve traveled much farther and have seen much more. How would the other cows respond?

Until your trip, you were just like them. But your point of view changed, and you saw things you never imagined—treetops, homes, cars, highways, and land to the horizon. Your life will never be the same.

That silly story is close to what humans experience. We spend our lives on this planet. Some people never travel out of the country in which they are born, and some people don’t even leave their hometowns! That’s all we know. But God is much bigger than our world—and far beyond. He sees all the people of the world all the time. He also sees everything beyond our tiny planet, throughout the universe. So when he tells us about life, the future, how to live, or anything else, we ought to listen carefully. We should try to see life from his point of view.

God says, for example, that this life is not everything. He offers eternal life in heaven with him, if we have given our lives to his Son. He says that we can trust him for the future. And God tells us about all of this in his Word, the Bible.

So try to see life from God’s point of view, and trust him in everything.

Jesus turned and looked at his disciples and then said to Peter very sternly, “Get away from me, Satan! You are seeing things merely from a human point of view, not from God’s” (Mark 8:33).

To Do

The next time you’re in an airplane or on the top floor of a tall building, look down at everything below. Then think of how God sees everything.

Also on this day . . .

1930—Clyde Tombaugh discovered the planet Pluto.

1987—The Girl Scout organization changed the color of their uniforms from green to blue.

From Betsy Schmitt and Dave Veerman, 365 Trivia Twist Devotions: An Almanac of Fun Facts and Spiritual Truth for Every Day of the Year (Cincinnati: Standard, 2005). Scripture quotations are from the New Living Translation unless otherwise noted.