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Everyone expereinces stress at some point and time in their life, but sometimes the stress becomes unbearable. Stress from everyday circumstances in life can take a big toll on us physically. Stress can cause major health problems and even kill. I did not realize it could be as harmful physically until it caused my sickness. Stress can be a killer, if you do not learn to manage it properly.
This day and age our lifestyles are very fast-paced, challenging, unstable, immoral and dangerous. "Perilous times"; 2Tim. 3:1.
God gave us a manual of solutions for life, and even for coping with stress. The Bible gives us information and guidelines to manage our life, life's problems and all of our everyday life events, good and bad.
In our world of today, stress is more and more common, making us feel more anxious and unbearable, with our everyday life and circumstances. Some of the most common stress triggers of today's society is unstable relationships, unruly and defiant children, lack of money and unstable economy, and health issues, this in turn adds to a feeling of unworthiness. We being worriers, we seem to worry over things that hasn't even happened yet, letting our mind terrorize us.
Another stress trigger is not being able to say "NO", and trying to please everyone. We have to know where to draw the line & say "NO". You cannot please everyone and when you try to, all you are doing is making yourself unhappy and raising your stress level.
God's instruction manual for life, provides the answers to living life, gives us hope and peace, and gives us the principles for coping and managing stress. When bad things are happening, coming at us from all sides, and seem unbearable, stop and focus on good things and God's promises. We must learn to control our thoughts if we are going to cope with and learn to overcome stress. "Focus on the positive";
Phil. 4:8.
When you can't change the problem and it seems unbearable, ask God to change the problem that is giving you stress, to give you strength, comfort and peace. Mark 10:27.
You can find comfort in dealing with problems and the stress if you can focus on other things. Comforting and helping others, dealing with a more serious problem than yours, can give you a self-satisfying feeling, comfort and joy, which in turn will help relieve some of your worrying and stress. "There is more happiness in giving, than receiving"; Acts 20:35. God promises to comfort us during bad times, if we would just ask and believe that He keeps His promises; 2Cor. 1:3-4.
God can and will bring peace to our troubled life if we will just ask Him, because peace is a part of God's fruit of the Holy Spirit and his plan for us. We just have to follow God's plan for peace; Gal. 5:22; which will change our lifestyle and change our heart; Col.3:15.
When we feel we have reached our breaking point because of a serious problem and the unbearable stress, there is still hope. God will provide help in coping and give us strength, to survive the problem and the stress, while making us a stronger person; 1Cor. 10:13. "What does not kill us will make us stronger". God gave Jesus strength when He prayed; Luke 22:44; just as He will do for us if we ask.
We wonder and ask "Why" we have to go through problem and stress, and ask "Why God" allows bad things, problems and stress to come into our life. We need to believe there is a reason for us to be tried and tested with the trials that come into our life. We must learn to trust that God is there with us, and He is working on us and our life, to shape and form us and our life into what He wants. Trials and tests are for our own good, even though we do not see it, understand it or like it. 1Peter 4:12-13; James 1:2-4.
God has big eyes to see everything and the whole picture of our life, where as we have little eyes and we only focus on the little picture of our problem. God has a reason for allowing us to go through stressful trials and tests. As soon as we realize and accept that the tests and trials is a divine purpose, then our stress level will lessen and eventually disappear. 1Tim. 2:3-4; 1Peter 5:10.
Let God know you are having trouble and you need His help, He will be there to help you. Let God know you need Him to help you learn the lesson He is wanting you to learn through this trial/problem. He will open your eyes and help you learn. Have faith, because He loves you and understands.
Romans 8:35, 38-39; Hebrews 4:15.
Trials, tests and problems are our lessons in life teaching us to be a better person, while removing the bad in us, but the stress is self-inflicted pressure of worry. Call on God and believe He loves you, and only wants the best for you.