God Has 3 Questions For You

And those questions are all about you learning something significant about yourself. God already knows, so He's asking for your benefit!

When I get discouraged, I can always blame losing perspective. I mean, it’s inevitable.

My troubles give me tunnel vision, and I lose the ability to see beyond my immediate pain.

Staying aware of how pain, trauma, or even conflict gives us “tunnel vision” helps me avoid the traps of forgetting to keep perspective. My life and your life are rarely all bad or all good. There are always some spots of real joy and others of real pain. But the pain tends to flood us with emotion and passion, and that always leads to a loss of perspective.

It becomes a bad thing when I get trapped in those moments. There are many times in my life when I need to be focused on the moment, drawn to contemplate the challenge right before me.

But, as usual, that which can be good can also become destructive if I don’t keep balance. And more often than not, I lose my balance, especially when I’m in pain.

In those moments when I’ve forgotten myself, God asks me three questions that ALWAYS put any moment, good or bad or in between, in perspective.

Look at our lesson today in Isaiah 40:18-31: