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My tennis perspective tends to be day-to-day focused (a micro focus) with some mid-term planning thrown in, such as using video, better conditioning, and more coaching lessons. It’s not even close to what the pros focus on: winning majors, getting into the top 10 rankings, and becoming #1. 

Life away from tennis and many other pleasurable activities requires a different focus, a macro focus. We get this focus from Isaiah (40:21-31):

Do you not know?
Have you not heard?

Isaiah calls us to focus on God’s greatness and supremacy, a supremacy without comparison or equal. How trivial it is for me to allow losses, double faults, or a low rating disturb me when the macro view—the big picture—is that God sits enthroned over the earth and rules with glory.

I don’t have the energy I once had and my serve will never be strong. This is micro-thinking. But God “will not grow tired or weary” of blessing us, and will renew our strength, lift us up on wings of eagles, and will not let us be weary or faint as we travel the path of our lives in faith. This is macro-thinking as its highest.

Photo interpretation: There is more to tennis than the ball. There is more to life than tennis. Take the macro view.

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