We all live under the same sky, but we don’t have the same horizon. Originals always see a bigger picture. Expanding your horizons means being able to see the greater potential all around you. When you expand your horizons, your life will change. You will begin to see things around you very differently.
The world’s demands don’t control the Christian’s supply. Do you risk enough to exercise your faith? “Aim at the sun and you may not reach it, but your arrow will fly far higher than if aimed at an object on a level with yourself” (Joel Hawes).
A woman’s horizons were changed forever when she came up to Picasso in a restaurant and asked him to scribble something on her napkin. She said she’d be happy to pay him whatever he felt it was worth. Picasso did what she asked and then said, “That will be $10,000.”
“But you did that in only thirty seconds,” the woman said.
“No,” Picasso replied. “It has taken me forty years to do that.”
“If the Son [of God] therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed” (John 8:36). Knowing Jesus brings freedom, and freedom releases you to think higher and see farther. Vision is the art of seeing things that are unseen.
If what you did yesterday still looks big to you, you haven’t done much today. You’ll never learn faith in comfortable surroundings. When God stretches you, you never come back to your original shape. A person who’s afraid of doing too much always does too little. Make sure the road you’re on is not leading to a cul-de-sac.
Someone once said, “Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has courage to lose sight of the shore.” That’s why I believe Jesus wants us to “Launch out to the deep” (Luke 5:4). Enough spiritual power is going to waste to put Niagara Falls to shame. Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already done and mastered, you will never grow.
Look around . . . then look a little farther . . . then look a little farther still.