It’s so easy to forget that every trial sent your way is sent by a Savior of grace, as a tool to advance the work of grace in your heart and life.

It’s so easy to forget it is impossible for you to ever be in any situation, relationship, or location by yourself because I Am is with you.

It’s so easy to forget that God loves and accepts you no less on your worst day than he does on your best day.

It’s so easy to forget you are never left to the limited resources of your own wisdom, righteousness, and strength.

It’s so easy to feel weak in the face of temptation and give way to what grace has given you the power to resist.

It’s so easy to question the goodness of God in times of trouble.

It’s so easy to ask yourself if God has forgotten you when you compare the trouble of your life to the seeming ease in the life of the person next to you.

It’s so easy when life is out of control to forget Jesus Christ rules over all things for His glory and for your good.

It’s so easy to forget the importance of not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as is the habit of some, but to gather together to encourage one another; and all the more as we see the day of His return drawing near (paraphrase Hebrews 10:25).

Adapted from Paul David Tripp’s New Morning Mercies