Think About It

Have we ever done an inventory of what we talk about?  If so, how much time did we focus on what was going right with us and how many of our words described our difficulties?  I am sure that most people spend most of their time focused on positives, but some of us struggle with seeing the negatives.  Now we all go through times when we have major challenges in our lives, but some of us tend to overemphasize how tough we have it! Interestingly, the true issue isn’t what comes out of our mouths, the real struggle is how we perceive life.   The more we look for the problems, the more complaining we do.   When the Apostle Paul discussed perspective, he observed, “ Therefore we do not lose heart, but though our outer man is decaying, yet our inner man is being renewed day by day.   For momentary, light affliction is producing for us an eternal weight of glory far beyond all comparison,   while we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen; for the things whi