Part of breaking out of your box and seeing a bigger picture of the world (and God’s activity in the world) is leaving behind some small/limited ways of seeing.
Living in a box/a shell/a bubble creates “a tunnel” way of seeing. Typically this vision is about selfish needs, ambitions, goals, and plans. We just cannot see a bigger picture inside the box. When your eyes are opened to the great needs of others across the street and around the world, you are confronted with a choice: go back in the box or venture away from the box to leave behind selfish needs, ambitions, goals, and plans.
Caroline, Tyler, and Karmen sang the words Sunday: what if there’s a bigger picture…what if there is greater purpose. What “things” and “ways of seeing” are you challenged to leaved behind in the box.
The 120 in the book of acts would be challenged to leave ethnic elitism, prejudice, job goals, financial security, inheritances, and the familiar surroundings of culture and language. The biggest idea to leave in the box would be the reliance on their own strengths and ideas. The Spirit of God was coming in power. Reliance/trust in Him would be the new way of living outside the box.
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