We need to stop complaining about and cursing the place of our assignment. Instead, we need to get God’s perspective on our present assignment and circumstances. How do we know that the place we’re at isn’t in fact a gate of heaven? We cannot trust our own eyes or perceptions.

This is why God asks, “How does it look to you?” It is an invitation to look again, from heaven’s point of view. We don't know what we think we know! God’s estimate of things is very different from ours.