Toddler Tuesday: Perspective
   Last night my wife was reading our 2-year-old a story with an illustration of a bee hive off in the distance and a bee in the foreground.  Our son thought it was ridiculous and impossible for the apparently huge bee to fit into the comparatively tiny front door of the bee hive.  He didn't understand the perspective going on.  
   Sometimes that's the way we are with our sin.  It's like the huge bee in the foreground of that picture.  It seems impossible that God's grace could cover it.  It seems impossible that the sacrifice of one man almost 2000 years ago on a Roman cross could be big enough to pay, not only for our sin, but for the sins of all people.  
   But the truth is that from God's perspective the sacrifice of his Son, Jesus did pay for all of our sin.  It removes our guilt before him.  It clothes us in his perfect life.  It gives us a new life right now, each and every day, and for all of eternity!
   Sometimes, the sins of others seem too big for God's sweet grace, too.  From our perspective, there's no way they can be forgiven.  Again, the truth from God's perspective is that in Christ, his forgiveness is for them, too.  
   I can't wait for our little one to understand perspective better.  Your heavenly Father is overjoyed when you come to see things from his perspective, too.  "Know also that wisdom is sweet to your soul; if you find it there is a future hope for you, and your hope will not be cut off." (Proverbs 24:14).  Indeed! How sweet the wisdom of God's grace is!