Eternal perspective is just what I have been lacking as of late. I have felt bombarded with little challenges lately from various financial issues to low patience levels and everywhere in between; and the biggest problem has not been an ambush of issues, but my false perspective. I am focusing and concentrating on the little stuff right in front of me, instead of the big picture around me.

It is time to shatter the mirror that I keep looking in, to keep my problems or stressors before me.  A few years ago I began to look at worrying as a real sin issue. Worrying tells God that he is not capable of helping you through the things that you are currently facing or that are on the horizon. And I guess the same can be said of stress. Stress is sinful, and it keeps us focused entirely on ourselves, and what we are facing, instead of on the service and needs of those we come in contact with. Stress pours directly out of the pool of selfishness, and I owe it first to Christ and secondly to my family to climb out of the water.

Stress has a way of feeding our pride and sense of importance to a very unhealthy level, and completely knocks our perspective out of whack. We see our own issues as more important than others, and we constantly find ourselves focused on small picture stuff instead of what God is asking of us each and every day. I am trying to tackle stress in a different way today, by changing my focus and offering this sinful perspective up to God. I desire to be the husband, father, son, worker, and servant that God has called me to be, and without a drastic change of perspective it just isn’t possible.

I hope that through prayer and a healthy focus on others all of the “stressors” that I have been struggling with will quickly find themselves without a life vest, and sink right out of my life.

Mike Warneke ~ October 14, 2009

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