Look UP

This post will be a little different. Because I usually don't talk a lot about my faith. Today I had my own epiphany (which I have had several times in my life; life lessons tend to repeat) and wanted to share.

It is very easy to get consumed in daily life, in hard times, in struggles. You start to look at yourself and the people in your life and your circumstances. You start to compare. You start to analyze things. Things could be better. You begin to feel less than. 

During these times, we forget to be grateful. We shift our focus. To all the things gone wrong. To all the "bad". To things we wish were different, better, more. And when we shift our focus, we lose sight of all the good. WHAT YOU FOCUS ON IS WHAT YOU GET. 

With everything wrong in our lives at the forefront of our minds, all that is right, all that is good somehow just gets pushed out of our minds. It disappears. At least from our minds. And now we are consumed by all the things we wish were different.

Where is your focus? WHAT YOU FOCUS ON IS WHAT YOU GET. SO.....FOCUS ON WHAT YOU WANT.

For me, this is where my faith steps in. It calls to me. LOOK UP. When I have been looking "down" or around at all my circumstances, God invites me to look up. At Him. Only then do I remember all the GOOD in my life. Every good thing comes from the Father. 

And I have a lot of GOOD in my life. I have a lot to be grateful for. I am so blessed. Beyond what I deserve. And then my focus shifts again. Whatever is true, honorable, right, pure, lovely, good, excellent, worthy, dwell on these things (Phil 4:8). 

Where is your focus? Are you looking down? Around?  Or are you looking up?