If you are feeling down, it’s because you aren’t looking up.

A good way to avoid discouragement is to correct your vision. If your difficulties are discouraging you, then you are spending too much time looking at your situation and not enough time looking at God. When you are discouraged:

Look at how God has been faithful to you in the past. Remember how He faithfully protected you and met your needs.

Let God work in your life right now. Rely on Him for your strength and hope. Your reliance on God in your tough times can be an example to others.

Look ahead to when you will spend eternity in the presence of God in heaven. Your current troubles won’t last long compared to the joy that will last forever.

We are pressed on every side by troubles, but we are not crushed and broken. For the troubles we see will soon be over, but the joys to come will last forever (2 Corinthians 4:8,18)