How many times have you heard someone say, “You can’t see the forest for the trees”?

It’s an oft-quoted saying intended to persuade someone to not let a situation grip them or blind them or captivate them (as an individual tree of life) in such a way that the bigger picture or better perspective is totally missed (the forest of life).

We all find ourselves missing the forest sometimes and losing our perspective on what matters, what’s best, and what’s ultimate. This can happen at Christmas.

Here are a few examples:

There are many struggles we commonly share in our sin-cursed, self-focused, and satanically-permeated world.

A few that stand out to me are guilt, discouragement, anxiety, and fear. Have you felt the sting of these crushing blows in your life lately? They can be incessant and oppressive.

The good news about our faith is God! He always has an adequate provision simply because He is the God of “all things” (Mark 10:27) who “can do all things” (Job 42:2) and causes “all things to work together for good” (Romans 8:28) and for His glory (Romans 11:36).

Here are three of my favorite truths that always provide a clear perspective when life throws me a curveball.