What is stress? Is it controllable or avoidable? Does it bring things out in us that which we never thought was there? And for that fact does it bring out the best in us…probably not. For most people we can try as much as we like, but at sometime or another stress will enter our lives like an unwanted houseguest. It will come in suddenly, most the time not forceably. It will set up it’s little room off in the corner and promise to be quiet and not disturb. But after an awkward period of time you start to wonder if this guest is ever gonna leave. You come home and find that your guest, even though they promised to stay in their room quietly, has now torn your house into shambles!!! The other parts of your dwelling that had nothing to do with your guest, now our tarnished with the evidence of this foreign body. Our life is the same way. Many of us don’t invite stress in intentionally, but I have met a larg number of people who leave a key under the mat for this guest…I was thinking about stress and how it gets out of hand in our lives, when I happened to read this verse the other day.
Phillipians 4:6-7(msg) Don’t fret or worry. Instead of worrying, pray. Let petitions and praises shape your worries into prayers, letting God know your concerns. Before you know it, a sense of God’s wholeness, everything coming together for good, will come and settle you down. It’s wonderful what happens when Christ displaces worry at the center of your life.
After I read that I had to admit to myself that I am guilty of worrying about things all too often in my own life. Where is the money coming from or why isn’t this working out or why can’t I seem to make this work or why don’t I have the answers I need. Jesus clearly stated that our lives would be way more blessed and way more productive if we would just cast all our worries and stress on Him. He knows what we need and even the timing in which we need it. So try this, the next few weeks when you are faced with stress just put your hands up in the air…not as a sign of failure but as a sign of releasing everything to the Father!
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