It's the angle.
For example, a football game on TV.
You'd swear, watching the replay from one angle, that the player stepped out of bounds. But then the camera shows two more replays from different angles and it's clear as can be that he stayed in bounds.
In this parable, the rich man and the poor man are looking at life from two different angles. The rich man is on the inside looking out, at the top looking down. Lazarus is on the outside looking in, at the bottom looking up.
Which angle gives the truer picture?
Jesus doesn't leave us without an answer. Both men die and the rich man realizes he had a distorted picture. The angle made all the difference. So much so that the rich man wants to return to earth and tell his brothers.
How do you try to make sure that you see things the way they really are? One way is, in every situation, to ask yourself, "How does God see this?"
You can pick a situation or two in your life right now, and ask the Lord how he sees it.
He has the best angle of all.
- Little Black Book, Diocese of Saginaw