Step back and see the Bigger Picture
1 Corinthians 16:9 For a great door and effectual is opened unto me, and there are many adversaries. One day the chamber of commerce in a small town invited a successful businessman to come and speak. The local economy was bad and they were discouraged, so his job was to motivate them. He took a large pice of white paper and made a red dot in the center of it. " What do you see?" he asked the audience. One person replied, "I see a red dot." the speaker said, "fine, but what else do you see?" others echoed in, "A red dot". The speaker asked, "Don't you see anything else besides the dot?" the audience responded with a resounding no, the speaker said "you have overlooked the most important thing, you've missed seeing the sheet of paper, then he went on to explain that in life we are often distracted by small, dot-like failures and experiences". They keep us from seeing the blessings and successes that are more imp...