“Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it is thinking of yourself LESS!” This is a great quote from my really awesome Dad!

It has been a crazy busy week full of trials and bad news: an uncle’s funeral, a parent in the hospital, financial problems, relationship struggles, the flu, heavy work load, not to mention just plain busy. Sometimes busy doing the things I love and some things that I don’t love quite so much, like office work. In the face of stress I have to humble myself. The more I worry about these things, the more I find that I am thinking of myself and feeling sorry for myself. I almost have to stop “dead in my tracks” and turn my eyes off of me and back on to Jesus. When I do, it’s like a ray of light and of HOPE shines in on the situation again.

I love the song by Third Day….

Turn your eyes on Jesus

Look full in His wonderful face

And the things of earth will grow strangely dim

In the light of His GLORY and GRACE.

Isn’t it amazing that we know and serve a God who is so glorious and so full of GRACE that all we have to do is “Fix our eyes on Him” and we find HOPE in even the worst of circumstances. I have heard it said that “our eyes are like the windows to our souls.”

Lord help me to turn my eyes to you in these times and always. Help me not be discouraged by trials but to “consider it pure joy” (James 1:2) in knowing that I am being tested and refined so that you can better see your image in me. Amen.

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