The Big Picture

What does it mean to get the big picture?
Many people fail to see the big picture.
I will tell you why.
Let's start with an example.
You're driving down a four-lane road and there is a lane closed ahead. At the two-mile mark there is a sign indicating so. You miss that sign because you're distracted. You were on your phone, adjusting the radio, plucking your eyebrows. A mile from the lane closure there is a large yellow arrow directing you to move over.
Now distractions have brought you to the point where you are stuck. Getting the big picture means seeing the whole thing. Now the big picture with God is a different thing, or is it? It is as easy as removing the distractions from your life to be able to see God's big picture.
"Hessah da'at is what the Jews call a "removal of the mind" or as we say , "going through the motions."
Concentrated prayer and discipline in our lives enables us to see Gods big picture.
Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,
(Hebrews 12:1)