"And the Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the gospel beforehand to Abraham, saying, 'In you shall all the nations be blessed.'” (Gal 3:8)
If you watch TV on a high definition screen, each image of your favorite show is made up of approximately two million tiny dots called pixels. Currently, my favorite show is Top Gear (BBC America). On the one hand, I could press my nose right up to the screen to try and see the individual pixels that make up Top Gear. If I do this, I will never enjoy the new season and will likely need an ophthalmologist. On the other hand, I could sit on my comfy couch at a reasonable distance from the screen. I won't see the pixels from the davenport, but I will enjoy the antics of Jeremy, Richard, James, The Stig, and "the star in a reasonably priced car." I see the big picture when I take a step back from the screen because a pixel is not the big picture.
God blessed Abraham with a son (Isaac). That blessing was a pixel, not the big picture. God told Abraham to take a step back if he wanted to the big picture. God told Abraham to take a step back and look up at the stars. Every star was a blessing God had in store for Abraham. To see the enormity of the big picture, Abraham had to take a step back to see the billions and billions of blessings including Isaac. In fact, Abraham couldn't fully love Isaac until he saw Isaac's place in God's big picture...and his own! Abraham and Isaac were each single stars in God's vast firmament.
You take a step back, too. Look at your Bible. Abraham was a pixel. Isaac was a pixel. David was a pixel. All the blessings of the Bible were pixels. Don't stare at the pixels, step back and see the big picture. Every blessing in the Bible is a pixel. The pixels combines to form a single big picture: the face of Jesus Christ. Jesus is the big picture.
Take a step back. Consider your life. If you are at all like me, you stare at the day to day pixels and miss the big picture of God. Don't get so focused on the small matters of life that you miss the big picture. The big picture is Jesus Christ. Hebrews 12:2 says we should “fix our eyes upon Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith....”
Are you staring at pixels or seeing the face of Jesus Christ? Are you seeing big picture?
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