Did you enjoy Christmas with family and friends? During this wonderful season, we often like to read great literature, watch a great movie, or hear a great story—and be deeply moved.  Yet what moves us?

Among other things, point of view strongly affects how we’re moved. To the very finite, limited extent that a story’s point of view reflects God’s point of view, we can be moved to a new spiritual appreciation of Jesus Christ’s unlimited point of view.

In a story, point of view can be omniscient or all-knowing. It doesn’t mean the narrator tells us everything he or she knows. During His public ministry, Jesus certainly didn’t say everything He knew. He did that on purpose!

Point of view can be omnipotent or all-powerful. Since the days of Jesus and the apostles, the Lord doesn’t directly speak to individuals, let alone heal the sick and otherwise bend the laws of nature. Or, does He?

Again, any story’s point of view is only a small inkling of Jesus’ unlimited point of view. So, don’t get too carried away! Still, try seeing the world as Jesus does the next time you sit down to enjoy a great story.

This is Luis Palau.