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Monday, November 3, 2025
Last week the image I presented was a compilation of seven overlapping photographs.
Today’s image is another panorama that was compiled from views to the left of last
week’s image. If you stitched the two images together, you would indeed see a bigger picture.
When it comes to secular topics of the day, we may wonder how people can have such a limited viewpoint. We might be tempted to encourage them to see the bigger picture. Often that “bigger picture” is bigger because it includes ideas to which we subscribe. Last week, I suggested that God desires us to be different, that we begin to see as God
sees.
“For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,” declares the Lord. “As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts” (Isaiah 55:8-9 NIV).
In spiritual matters, only God’s plans have meaning. Seek to know His will for you: “For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future” (Jeremiah 29:11 NIV).
Do not let the panoramas of the world (e.g., Little Chief, Middle Chief, Summit Chief, Chimney Rock, and Overcoat Peak) distract you from the bigger picture, i.e., God’s plans for you.