seeing clearly

Stop filling your mind with whatever is presently keeping you from pursuing God. Instead think about this: I Peter 5:7

Casting all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you (ESV)

Paint a picture in your mind of a man preparing for a long journey > his donkey is saddled and almost ready to go > he reaches down and picks up his last and most heavy sack and throws it onto the donkey’s back.

similar picture here _ take your anxieties — the ones you were never intended to bear alone, the ones that fog your mind and keep you from seeing clearly — take them and throw them on the Savior. He will carry them for you because He loves you. Whatever it is that is robbing you of your ability to pursue God | place it on Christ

Come away from your busy day for a second and think about this: Romans 8:32

He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, how will he not also with him graciously give us all things? (ESV)

Meditate on this: The God who did not hesitate to redeem us with the blood of his Son is the same God who will continue to richly lavish us with his grace — he will give us all things. Think about a spiritual need in your life and drag it to God_

Sometimes I feel as though my life passes by so quickly — not that my years are going by too quickly, but at times I begin to perceive life through some sort of blurred screen, maybe a foggy lense. As I encounter difficulties…struggles within and seeming difficulties from without, my perception loses its sharpness. My schedule is often busy, the word hectic is probably a better fit here. But who would say that their life isn’t? It seems as though life glides by like a racing subway car. I need to slow down and gain a fresh glimpse of my God, i.e I need to renew my perspective for living..these are the times that I need to see clearly again __