Allow me again to share with you a personal testimony of me coming to the understanding of this. One day while living in Matamata, New Zealand before we became involved with Wycliffe I had been thinking about the things of God. I had been musing on worship and people being eternal. I took Tania to the hairdressers and was sitting in the car waiting for her angled parked to the curb. I had a cassette playing worship music at the same I was reading my Bible and praying. I started looking at people passing on the street, some I knew; some I didn’t. Suddenly I noticed the car beside me was reversing out of the car park WITHOUT A DRIVER. I was amazed and totally focused on this car backing out without a driver. Then my car hit the curb. I had not put the handbrake on and the car had been in equilibrium until my moving around caused it to roll forward. While my senses told me the car beside me was backing out because I was not doing anything to move my car forward relative to the car beside me, in fact it was my car moving forward.
God took that moment to download to my spirit in an instant gigabytes of thought. He seemed to say to me just like with the car, you have to see from a new perspective. My perspective! In a instant I was aware of His perspective related to worship and the souls of people and what God wants of us. I was looking at people passing by on the footpath but I was not seeing them as they were in the flesh. I was seeing them as spirit bodies, or seeing their souls. The size of the person physically didn’t match what I was seeing in the Spirit. Some of the large, tall people I saw as short and shrivelled. Some people of small stature I saw as tall and strong. I realised I was seeing the soulish or spirit being rather than the physical stature of the person before my eyes. All that dropped into my spirit in a nanosecond. The things of God are to be perceived and understood spiritually. Oh how we need His help.