Blocking My View...

Blocking My Views...5-15-25

My husband has a saying "you can't see the picture when you are standing in the frame". He says that sometimes you have to back away and look from the outside in. When He told me this, I had that "Wow" moment I wrote about earlier. That moment you stop and think that is exactly what I needed to hear. Thank you, Lord for bringing those words. I heard him and I figuratively stopped in my tracks at the thought of how narrow minded I am sometimes. Don't tell him I said that.

You see, there are so many occasions where I think I have the whole picture. I can see what I think is the message and I interpret what is displayed in front of me. Then I realize that I'm seeing one part, one snippet, one frame and not the whole picture that will bring clarity.

My husband and I were discussing why I don't do a particular thing as much as I once did. I was explaining to him that I had begun to feel a certain way about the thing that I didn't like. I was losing focus and letting influences change my opinions of the thing. After backing up and viewing from a distance, I can see how there is more to the thing than I was seeing in my narrow view. I was in the frame and couldn't see all of the picture.

I Corinthians 13:12 says, "For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known." We see pieces, but God sees the bigger picture. He knew exactly what each frame would look like. He knew where each person would be in the picture. I believe He knew that there would be obstacles blocking our view. In His wisdom, God helps us to back up and see from the outside so that our eyes will be focused on His plan.

Psalm 139:16 says, "You saw me before I was born. Every day of my life was recorded in your book. Every moment was laid out before a single day had passed."