The Bigger Picture

Imagine standing on a huge flat plane covered with dots of various size, shape, and color.  There are others with you, many people all walking or standing in groups discussing what all the blotches mean.  Many are of the opinion that it's random and unimportant.  Why worry about it?  Many others feel certain that there is meaning, but struggle to make sense of it.  Still others you see making a definite move in a certain direction.  They move with purpose, so you follow.

Ahead you see a Man.  He says, "Come, follow me."  As you do you are guided to a type of glass elevator.  You step on.  Slowly, but steadily, it rises into the sky.  As it does, you begin to recognize patterns forming in the many dots below.  A beautiful, glorious plan is taking shape.  You can now recognize figures and faces, objects and animals.  There is purpose and meaning.  It gradually makes sense.  There, laid out below you is the most grand and wonderful picture our Heavenly Father could paint for us.  It was always there, all around us, right below our feet.  We just couldn't see it on our own.  We lacked the perspective.

When we chose to align ourselves with Christ, the power of the Atonement lifted us up, improving us and improving our vision, allowing us to see as God sees, the grander picture.  We try to shout to those below about how beautiful it is!  How marvelous and glorious and wonderful!  But they only shake their heads and shout back that we are terribly mistaken.  They see no picture there, they see nothing of worth.  They see no order or purpose to the dots beneath their feet.  They "know" we must be wrong.

What shame.  Anyone who chooses to follow Christ, to lift their sights and their minds to things of an eternal nature will be blessed to see the bigger picture.