“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, since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal. 2 Corinthians 4:17-18

I recently have found myself having to repeat this scripture to encourage myself to not look at what I am experiencing in the moment but to look out ahead. I feel like we are walking through very dark, upside down troubled times. I’m finding that it is hard to stay encouraged, strengthened and even focused on what I am doing. Even though that is true I will not allow any of those things to push me down or keep me down. I look up and I grab a hold of this scripture and say it out loud. When I do that I feel myself literally being pulled out of the dark whirlwind and into His marvelous light. That light is the truth itself.

This scripture is like food and energy to my soul. I do not have to stay one second in anything that wants to suck me into this dark world. Or the chaos that is happening around me. His word is truth and as I speak out that truth it literally removes me from the circumstances. It places me in the glory that is spoken about in the scripture. 

Christ came, died on that cross and rose again so that I do not have to live in anything that seeks to take me down. Whatever circumstances I find myself in that are negative, I say to myself, “Christ died for that and I do not have to live in that.” It’s quite simple. It actually boils down to a choice. I get to choose every day the way that I will have my day play out. I choose Christ and Him crucified. I also remind myself that this is all so temporary. But a vapor scripture says.

How about you? What is your choice? 

“And it will be said in that day, behold, this is our God for whom we have waited that He might save us. This is the Lord for whom we have waited; let us rejoice and be glad in His salvation.” Isaiah 25:9