Refocus Your Perspective!
Then Jacob said to Joseph: “God Almighty … said to me,
‘Behold, I will make you fruitful and multiply you, and I will
make of you a multitude of people, and give this land to
your descendants after you as an everlasting possession."
Genesis 48:3-4
“He couldn’t see the forest for the trees” suggests that
getting too close to a problem blinds the bigger picture.
It means to step back and refocus your perspective.
What were the “trees” in Jacob’s life that were so distracting they
could have taken his focus off God’s plan for his life? The sins of
his son, Judah; the supposed death of his beloved son, Joseph;
the famine in Canaan that threatened to destroy the seventy-plus
members of his household; the anxiety of sending ten of his sons
to Egypt in search of food; a possibility of losing his youngest son,
Benjamin, as collateral for food; moving his household to the new
land and culture, and those are just the ones we know about. But
Jacob kept his eye on the prize: God’s promise to create a nation
through Abraham, Isaac, and now, him.
Don’t let “trees” you encounter today
take your eyes off of God’s “forest”
His everlasting plan for your life.
