How to Keep a Proper Perspective

There have been times when I have been at the airport waiting for an international flight and the whole area was wrapped in fog.

But all of us passengers were ushered onto the plane and the pilot confidently pointed the nose of the plane to the sky. For a minute or so, I could see nothing out of the window, then suddenly we burst free of the fog and there was beautiful Mount Hood rising into the sunshine.

We tend to get upset when fog hinders our journey through life, but we forget the sun is still shining overhead. We fail to maintain a proper perspective.

British statesman William Wilberforce once commented, "The objects of the present life fill the human eye with a false magnification because of their immediacy."

Problems and concerns often act like fog to obscure our present situation. They keep us from seeing things in proper perspective.

Psychologists tell us that 45 percent of what we worry about is past, and 45 percent is future. (Thirty percent concerns our health alone!) Only one in every 10 things we worry about will ever come to pass—and we usually cannot do anything about it anyway.

Thankfully, heaven knows no emergencies. God is well aware of your problems.

First Peter 5:7 [NLT] says, “Give all your worries and cares to God, for he cares about you.” Claim it today.