A True Sense of Proportion
DON’T make too much of trifles. Strive to acquire that true sense of proportion which will save you from mistaking molehills for mountains, or mountains for molehills. In other words, strive to discern what are the things of real importance in this life, that you may devote your time and energies to that which will count most in the end. It is great gain to be freed from the thousand vexations, annoyances, and worries that would naturally come to us if our eyes and hopes were not fixed on the higher things of Christianity. Christianity saves us from these vexations, not by preventing the things that would cause them, but by delivering us from the feelings which they stir up in the natural heart; by anointing our eyes so that we discern that these things are not mountains, but molehills. It is a sad thing for Christians to waste their nervous energy and shorten their lives over the “light afflictions” which are as nothing in comparison with the abiding realities of the kingdom of God.