| - <Sigh> Life has been stressing me out lately. I feel like I have a million decisions to make about my future and nooo clue how to figure it out. Figuring out the rest of your life is incredibly daunting. Deep down I know everything will work out in the end, but it is still so easy to get caught up in all the obstacles and worries of the moment. Doing so can make your life absolutely crazy! However, I know God has a plan for me and will get me there. It is truly amazing to me that no matter how stressed or worried I get, God always comes through for me. Sometimes all I need is a little reassurance from Him: someone to put it all in perspective. (Thanks Jane!)
Remembering these verses gives me so much comfort:
Proverbs 16:3 Commit to the Lord whatever you do and your plans will succeed.
James 1:2-4 Consider it pure joy my brothers, whenever you face trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith develops perserverance. Perserverance must finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything.
2 Corinthians 12:9 My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.
1 John 5:14 This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us.
Colossians 3:23-24 Whatever I do, I must work at it with all my heart. I am working for the Lord, not for men. I know that I will receive an inheritance from the Lord as my reward. It is the Lord Christ I am serving.
And this, I think, is what puts it all into perspective...
2 Corinthians 4:17-18 For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.
That is definitely what I needed to remember tonight. "If you see the obstacles in front of you, you've taken your eyes off the goal." So don't focus on the momentary troubles, but rather on the unseen. For it is the unseen that must drive us; the troubles merely pave the way to that glorious end. |