What gets you discouraged? Your story is unique and so are the factors that make you feel like life isn’t working and that you’re not getting anywhere. But everyone knows what it feels like to be frustrated and deflated. Most of the time, the feeling comes from the circumstances of our lives and how we see them. Paul teaches us today that we have choices we can make about how we face even the hardest parts of life that can overcome heart-withering despair. We’ll see in just three short verses some amazing and powerful truths that can steady us in any storm and ground us in any battle.