You've heard it said--"I felt like I just got run over by a truck".
Whoever lived to describe that experience? I guess it's what we imagine it would feel like to be have an unexpected unbearable load suddenly thrust upon us.
It literally takes our breath a way...someone said, like a "sucker punch".
Maybe you've experienced such a devastating event, or, are in the midst of an avalanche of chaos and crisis.
The truck has not only run over you, but it feels like its backing up and doing it again...and again.
How do we deal with devastation?
We clearly have to change our focus. Focusing on the stuff around us can perpetuate the sense of gloom that accompanies difficulties. The persecuted Hebrew believers were encouraged with this challenge, "Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith..." (Hebrews 12:2).
Paul tells young believers at Corinth that we "...fix our eyes not on what is seen but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary but what is unseen is eternal", II Corinthians 4:18.
What am I looking at? The current calamity is devastating but it is temporary. In terms of eternity, it pales in comparison to what God has planned for me. I can choose where I direct my focus, heeding the admonition to "set your affections on things above...", Colossians 3:1.
I may still feel like a got run over by a truck.
But I don't have to lay there.
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