That phrase is often used when someone is trying to determine someone else's motive--where he or she is "coming from" and what he or she is actually "getting at." Also, the question implies that there may be more going on beneath what one sees on the surface. When the word, "angle" is used as a synonym for "perspective," what you see depends on where you stand.
Sometimes angles are quite useful. An angled broom, for instance, allows one to get at crumbs and other debris that can't be reached with an even-shaped broom. Sports and recreational activities like skiing, sledding or snow tubing require an angle or the participants will never get enough momentum to move beyond the starting position.
When it comes to Christian service, what's your angle? What's behind your reason for serving? Is it the need to feel important or powerful? Is it an inability to say "no"? Is "people pleasing" at work behind the scenes?
If we are not serving from the right motive, then what we deem to be honorable service may be viewed and received entirely differently by others. When Christian service comes from a place of love within us--a deep, abiding love of Jesus Christ--then love is what will come out of us.
True unconditional love will make us serve without regard for reward or comfort. A "not my will but THY will be done" attitude toward service empowers us to see and respond to needs in ways that are "exceedingly, abundantly above all we could ask or imagine."
When our motivation comes from the right place, then no matter which angle it is viewed from, all that is seen is love. Love from the right. Love from the left. Love from the front. Love from the back. Love from above and love underneath. When love is underneath and all around what we do, all that is seen is God, for God is love. When all that is seen is God, the right one gets the glory!
BNcouraged!
Rev. Karen
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