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Sky Garden

He looked down from His holy height. Psalm 102:19 nasb

While in London, a friend arranged for my wife Marlene and me to visit the Sky Garden. On the top floor of a thirty-five-story building in London’s business district, the Sky Garden is a glass-encased platform filled with plants, trees, and flowers. But the sky part captured our attention. We gazed down from a height of over 500 feet, admiring St. Paul’s Cathedral, the Tower of London, and more. Our views of the capital city were breathtaking—providing a helpful lesson on perspective.

Our God has a perfect perspective of everything we experience. The psalmist wrote, “For He looked down from His holy height; from heaven the Lord gazed upon the earth, to hear the groaning of the prisoner, to set free those who were doomed to death” (Psalm 102:19–20 nasb).

Like the hurting people pictured in Psalm 102, we are often locked into the present with its struggles, “groaning” with despair. But God sees our lives from beginning to end. Our Lord is never caught off guard by the things that can blindside us. As the psalmist anticipated, His perfect perspective will lead to an ultimate rescue that sets free even those “doomed to death” (vv. 20, 27–28).

In difficult moments, remember: We may not know what is coming next, but our Lord does. We can trust Him with every moment that stretches before us.

For more perspective on the trying seasons of life, read Why? Seeing God in Our Pain at discoveryseries.org/cb151.

Focusing on Christ puts everything else into perspective.

空中花园

祂从至高的圣所垂看。-诗篇102篇19节

在伦敦时，一位朋友安排我和妻子玛琳去参观一个空中花园。这个空中花园座落在伦敦商业区一栋高达35层楼的顶楼上，整个花园是一个大型的玻璃屋，里面种满了各样的花草树木。然而最吸引我们的，乃是在顶楼一望无际的视野。我们从超过150公尺的高处往下俯瞰，圣保罗大教堂和伦敦塔等著名景点，都尽收眼底。在高楼鸟瞰的景色令人惊叹，也让我联想到观看事物的角度。

我们的上帝从绝佳的视野俯视我们经历的一切。诗人描述道：“因为耶和华从祂至高的圣所里垂看，从天上观看大地，为要垂听被囚的人的叹息，解救定了死罪的人。”（诗篇102篇19-20节，新译本）

我们如同诗篇102篇所描述被囚的人一样，我们也经常被困在现今的各种艰难中，因绝望而“叹息”。你我的一生都离不开上帝的眼目，那些让我们猝不及防的事，上帝早已知道了。正如诗人所说，祂从天上垂看为要施行拯救，要释放“定了死罪的人”（20、27-28节）。

当路途崎岖难走时，请记住：我们或许不知明日将如何，但主知道。因此，我们能将未来的每时刻都交托在祂手中。

天父，有时我目光短浅而偏离正路，有时只看到眼前困难而看不见祢。求祢让我能将一切未知的事交托给祢，
并让我全然相信祢必会帮助我面对未来的挑战。