The story goes that five blind Chinese men were asked to describe an elephant. The first man stepped up to the elephant, felt with his hands, smelled with his nose and said, “It is long and narrow, very flexible – like a snake, but with a little brush on the end. It is also very stinky.”
“Long and narrow? It is more like a thick hose that, Ah! Sprays out the end!”
“It is no hose at all.” Said the third man, the shortest of the five. “It is most like a tree, rough and solid. Much thicker than a hose.”
“No. You all have it wrong,” interjected the fourth man. “It is broad and wide, like a wall.”
“If my friend declared it a tree, I most definitely have the biggest leaf I have ever encountered. It is thin and waves in the wind.”
Which man was correct? They all were!
When we come to God with our problems, explain to him our situation, we are like the blind man, unable to see the whole elephant. Only God has the clear perspective of the big picture. Only God is able to address the whole elephant. What we are dealing with... it may just be an ear.
Let’s put our faith in God – He can see the whole elephant and has the big picture in mind.