Perspectives from Above - All Our Daily Bread Daily Devotionals for 2026

Our Daily Bread - Wednesday, June 11, 2020
by RBC Ministries

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Perspectives from Above

Bible in a Year: Ezra 1-2, John 19:23-42

I will not yield my glory to another.
Isaiah 48:11

Today's Scripture & Insight: Isaiah 48:5-11, 17

When Peter Welch was a young boy in the 1970s, using a metal detector was only a hobby. But since 1990, he's been leading people from around the world on metal-detecting excursions. They've made thousands of discoveriesâ€”swords, ancient jewelry, coins. Using "Google Earth," a computer program based on satellite imagery, they look for patterns in the landscape on farmland in the United Kingdom. It shows them where roads, buildings, and other structures may have been centuries ago. Peter says, "To have a perspective from above opens a whole new world."

God's people in Isaiah's day needed "a perspective from above." They prided themselves on being His people yet were disobedient and refused to give up their idols. God had another perspective. Despite their rebellion, He would rescue them from captivity to Babylon. Why? "For my own sake, . . . I will not yield my glory to another" (Isaiah 48:11). God's perspective from above is that life is for His glory and purposeâ€”not ours. Our attention is to be given to Him and His plans and to pointing others to praise Him too.

Having God's glory as our own life's perspective opens a whole new world. Only He knows what we will discover about Him and what He has for us. God will teach us what is good for us and lead us along the paths we should follow (v. 17).

By: Anne Cetas

Reflect & Pray
What can you praise God for today? How might you go about having God increase in your life and you decrease?

God, I want my life to be about You and not myself. Teach me and change me.

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