Sometimes it’s easy to lose perspective.

You look at where you are right now and see where you want to be and the gap seems so wide. You feel like you’ll never get to where you want to be, that maybe you should just settle for the way things are right now.

When you only see how far you have to go, it’s easy to lose hope and to want to give up. It’s easy to give in to despair and hopelessness.

Just try this one little trick. The next time you see how far you have to go, look back and see how far you’ve come. See what God has already brought you through. Remember that the God who rescued you yesterday is the same today, tomorrow, and forever.

Remember that God is still God, and what seems impossible to you or me isn’t even remotely difficult for God (props to Pete Wilson for that one). Remember that God has promised to finish that good work He started in you. And God has never yet broken a promise. Ever.

I suppose this is me preaching to me again. Usually most of these posts are me reminding myself of what I already know, or what I ought to know and have forgotten.

Hopefully, my reminder to me will help you when your hope seems hardest to find.