What's the bigger picture?

There is always a bigger picture out there. In this world where we can get almost anything we want at a touch of a button...there is a bigger picture. I am pretty sure that the average amount of times people switch jobs nowadays is 5-8 times. That is because everyone expects instant success. Our society has transformed out minds into thinking that just because we can get anything we want instantly think that we are going to be an instant success and as soon as something doesn't work we immediately start looking for another way to find success.

As soon as one bad thing happens, we panic and freak out. We think that this job or career isn't for us. We let one bad thing ruin all the good things.

Happy people see God's perfect picture. So how are you looking at your problems? Are you viewing them from the world's viewpoint? Or God's viewpoint?

If you want to be a happy person, you need to look at every problem from God's viewpoint. Happy people have a larger perspective. They see the bigger picture. When you don't see things from God's point of view, you get discouraged, frustrated, and unhappy.

No matter what is going on our lives, God is always working on his plan for you.

"I want you to know, my dear brothers and sisters, that everything that had happened to me here has helped spread the good news." (Philippians 1:12)

I don't know if you knew this or not but Paul had one really big dream and that was to share the gospel in the city of Rome. At the time, Rome was the most important city in the world. Paul was all set to do this, but God had different plans.

Instead of sending Paul to Rome to preach, God made him a royal prisoner of Caesar, who at the time was Nero.

As a royal prisoner, Paul was chained to a royal guard 24 hours a day for two years, and the guard was changed every four hours. Over the two years he was in prison, he witnessed to 4,380 guards...really let that settle in.

Paul could've had a prisoner-like mindset and just totally shut himself off and not done anything with the situation he was in but he didn't do that. He knew that God had a bigger plan, and that he could see this plan unfolding because he got to witness to many of the guards.

Another thing that Paul did while he was in prison was write. This was when he wrote the books of Romans, First and Second Corinthians, Galatians, Ephesians, Philippians, and Colossians.

We can learn an extremely important lesson here. When things in our lives don't go as planned, we should never get down or frustrated. We need to always remember God's bigger picture.

That is what Paul did and when he was imprisoned he wrote 7 books in the New Testament and he witnessed to over 4,380 prison guards. What are you doing when things don't go your way?

What's the bigger picture?