Trying to focus on Jesus and not the struggles.
Ignoring the struggles can be very hard when they are in your face all day long.
How to keep your mind on Jesus?
It’s a day by day walk we have.
Jesus reminded us of that.
Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself.
Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof. Matthew 6:34
The problems will go away at some point.
Then new ones will be there to take their place.
Sometimes the problems are so big, so huge, they take up so much room in our hearts, in our minds.
It is very very difficult to keep Jesus at the center of our existence
when these other things come into our lives like a flood.
Remember Job?
He scraped his boils with a potsherd.
Oh, yes and then you remind yourself that your problems are nothing like Job’s.
None of that matters when you are suffering or toiling.
You know what you’re supposed to do, it’s just hard to do it.
You’re supposed to rise above the circumstances, not fret, cast your cares on Him.
You’re supposed to lift up the name of Jesus above all your thoughts.
His thoughts are higher.
it doesn’t help when you can’t even do that.
Things just seem to circle and fretting can take over.
If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again.
Keep doing what you know you are supposed to do.
Spend some time with Jesus, in His word, in His presence. That will help.
It can get you through for a little while.
Then, spend some more time with Him and more time in His word
and that will get you through a little more.
Keep carrying that cross.
When it’s heavy and you have to take a break, Jesus is right there with you.
Pretty soon, you’ll be on the other side of all this and His presence will be a greater part of you.
Less flesh. More Jesus. That’s the goal.
Knowing that He will work all things together for good:
And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God,
to them who are the called according to his purpose. Romans 8:28
God can and does take the most difficult circumstances and turn them for good.
He has and will continue to do just that, sort out the difficulties and put everything in its rightful place.
This walk with Jesus is a process.
If anyone points a finger at you and tells you how to better do it,
they should quickly be put into that category of struggles.
Relinquish their judgments to the Lord to either learn from or dismiss.
Sometimes people who point out your faults or struggles are wrong even when they are right.
Let it go and keep close to Jesus and let Him have His way in all things concerning yourself.
You will only answer to Jesus in the end, so to keep checking with Him is optimal.