A man had come home from an extra busy day’s work to meet his excited son wanting to hang out and do something together. The father had an idea. He looked around the house to find a picture of the world. The picture was of the globe on a sky background.
He brought it to his son, and they talked about our world. They talked about many of the problems our world faces and pointed out the country they lived in. Then he said, “How about we cut this picture into many pieces and you can put our world back together?”
The son thought that would be fun, so the man cut up the picture and dumped the pieces on the floor and said to his son, “Now put our world back together.” Thinking it would take the child a long time, he sat back on the sofa to relax.
Five minutes later his son showed up and said happily, “Here it is.”
The dad was surprised and asked him, “How did you put the world together so quickly?” The son replied, “It was easy. On the back of the picture is a picture of Jesus, and when you look at Jesus, the world comes together.”
When we keep our eyes upon Jesus, our world begins to take shape. When our focus is upon him, we grow spiritually, develop character, find meaning, and eventually, our whole world comes together.
In the name of the One who can do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine,
Bruce Jones, Pastor and Co-Creator,
Imagine Church of the Carolinas
