Have you ever had one of “those days” when everything just seems to go wrong?
You get up in the morning still tires from a less-than-perfect night sleep and you head to the coffee maker looking forward to that fresh brewed coffee to find that you didn’t quite have the pot on straight. So instead of having a fresh brewed cup of coffee you now have a counter full of coffee. On the way out the door you realize that you forgot to plug in the charger.
If you’ve had days like this, then it familiar.
Life is hard
Some days are full of aggravating circumstances, and others are just seemingly unbearable. Like that call you get from someone that a loved one has just passed away. Or that call from a good friend to hear they have cancer.
Having a heavenly perspective, trying as we might, it seems like the world works against us.
It circles back to an old-age question: why do bad things happen to good people?
Bad things happen period. The world we live in is fallen and broken, as well as the people in it. We all have trials and difficulties and have to endure painful things.
Jesus promised us we would face tribulation, but He also promised peace and commanded us to have courage that He is in control.
I don’t know about you but I’ve had to endure a lot of tribulation in my life. It’s in these times when we wonder if we will ever find peace,
It is possible to have peace but we must see His perspective in order to experience it.
Here are 5 keys to having a Godly perspective.
- God is Good (Psalm 84:11)
- Life is Hard (John 16:33)
- God is Sovereign (Romans 8:28)
- God is All-Wise (Romans 11:33-36
- God is All-Powerful (Jeremiah 32:17)
For year’s I have slowly and quietly reviewed these five pillars. I read these verses often out loud. God is a very big God. I have learned whatever we ask for it has to line up with the will of Him, or it won’t happen.
Knowing this, my circumstances don’t change but my perspective on them has changed.
God has promised to take care of us, and when we remember who He is, refuse to worry, and follow His direction, and develop a plan to move forward boldly, then we are able to experience His peace and power.
Bad days happen and we will struggle but they don’t last forever and having the perspective that “this too shall pass,” can go a long way.
From Pity to Praise 