Challenges? Focus!

When facing difficulties, it's so easy to become lost in a whirlwind of ineffective worrying. Caught in this cycle, it's almost impossible to think of an effective way to break free. The problems are distorted and magnified, and solutions are all but impossible to find. When we are able to break free and focus on the solution, however, sometimes the answer becomes clear.

Yet this can be so difficult.

I once asked someone how to go about the process of stopping that cycle of worry. The answer? "Turn to the positive in the situation or, if that isn't possible, turn your attention to something else which is positive."

C. R. Vaughn puts it this way:

If you were about to cross a deep chasm, and there were a bridge over it, would you stand there looking in at yourself, wondering if you trusted enough in bridges to be able to cross? Or would you not rather go and examine the beams and timbers of the bridge and the quality of its construction, and determine whether the bridge were trustworthy, and then pass over it in confidence?

Our faith is in Christ; spend yourself focusing on Him and His sufficiency, rather than on yourself.

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