The View From Pisgah

It's been said that life is measured in frames like a film.

Moments in our lives that might be a called a reaction shot. A term film makers use when actors are reacting to a situation. There are reverse angle shots when life shows us one side of something or an object (even a person's story) only to reverse and show us the other side.

Likewise a pan shot is when the camera remains stationary but turns horizontally revealing new areas. Recall 2 Chronicles 16:9, "For the eyes of the LORD range throughout the earth to strengthen those whose hearts are fully committed to him." God who sits on the throne (stationary) shifts and moves his eyes (lens) through every known hidden place on earth! And God's eyes act like tilt shot going up and down capturing all of heaven and hell's activity all at the same time.

Moses was prohibited from entering the Promise Land because he failed to show God as holy when striking the rock. He was to speak to the rock so water can be released. Later God took him to Mount Nebo and gave him a panoramic shot of the land. Then Moses climbed Mount Nebo from the plains of Moab to the top of Pisgah, across from Jericho. There the LORD showed him the whole land--from Gilead to Dan (Deuteronomy 34:1).

At one time Moses cried to see His Glory now God was showing His glorious promise to Moses. Beloved, we have these "framed" moments but they must be transitioned to another frame to produce a complete film. Sometimes we can be captured by a single frame in life. Sometimes blissful moments can cause us to stay in the moment far too long. Or unbelief and fear freezes us in that moment.

We can easily forget God is the author of our script (testimony). He has the power of the director's cut when editing the complete film. You can say Moses' anger caused him to be locked in a heated moment (a single frame) where he failed to see there was much more (a sequence of frames) at stake than venting his rage.

Beloved, the eyes of God is watching us. He is our Director and though we may not understand it we must allow His Spirit to do whatever He has put into our hands to do and be willing to move into place at His precise timing.

As the body of Christ we have all a part to play until that day in Revelation 21:1-4 when the final film of our lives are finished and the final credit belongs to Christ alone.

Then I saw “a new heaven and a new earth,”for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and there was no longer any sea. I saw the Holy City, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride beautifully dressed for her husband. And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “Look! God’s dwelling place is now among the people, and he will dwell with them. They will be his people, and God himself will be with them and be their God.‘He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away. (NIV)