Today, I want you to do an important exercise. On a piece of paper, or in your journal, or on a napkin while you’re eating lunch, make a list of the hardships in your life. Write out your struggles, or your pain, or you trials and list them out before God. Maybe it’s cancer. Maybe it’s an eating disorder. Maybe it’s an addiction or strained marriage or a wayward child or an overbearing boos or a mean teacher or church split. Whatever your heartaches, write them out.

Then next to each one you’ve written out, write these words: “Light and Momentary.”

It’s not easy to zoom out and gain a bigger perspective, but it’s the perspective God wants us to have on the trials before us. Will you choose His perspective today?