Lift your eyes above the natural

Therefore encourage one another and build one another up, just as you are doing. (1 Thessalonians 5:11 ESV)

 One day your earthen frames will pass away, as will all the things of this earth. So take care to lift your eyes above the natural, above the trying circumstances and conditions surrounding you or your loved ones. Rest your eyes on Me, and you will find the comfort, grace, and faith you need.
 As you look up, you’ll find that your perspective will change. What is truly important will come into focus, and that which is temporal will fade.
 This is when you will have the ability and the fortitude to comfort others with the same comfort you have received. This is when you will have the kind of faith and trust that, though you or your loved ones are called to walk through the valley of the shadow of death, you will fear no evil, because I will be with you. Your faith will be grounded firmly in Me. – Jesus [1]

 What you are experiencing from God, you can give away in increasing measure to others. You are learning both the tenderness and the clarity necessary to help sanctify another person’s deepest distress. —David Powlison

[1] Anchor Comfort in Difficult Times