My Life is a lot of stress, stress with family, stress in work, stress with myself, stress with people around me telling me negative words...and the list goes on. In today's world is virtually impossible to avoid stress. Many of us find increasingly difficult to simply survive in the world that is living in now. I find it difficult too. Then i remembered last Sunday at church my pastor was talking about overcoming certain sickness like stress, oppression and depression, so i learnt something about stress how to overcome.
Jesus Christ was constantly under pressure. There were grueling demands on His time. He rarely had personal privacy. He was constantly interrupted; people repeatedly misunderstood Him, criticize Him and ridiculed Him. He had enormous stress which would have caused any of us to cave in.
But you see the of Jesus as you picture Him, He never in hurry, He always at ease. He had calmness about His life that enable Him to handle enormous amounts of stress. How did He do it successfully? He knows who He is. Jesus said, "I am the way, the Truth and the Life".
Everyday people either live by priorities or live by pressure. There is no other option. People decide what't important in their lives or let others to tell each one another what is important in their lives.
Here is how Jesus responded." I must preach the good news of the Kingdom of God to the others town also, because that is why i was sent Luke 4:43. He refuse to be distracted by less important matters. When i've got 30 things to do in my desk, i will clear my desk and work on one thing. When i finish that, i pick up something else. You can't catch 2 jackrabbits at once. You've got to focus on one. That's how i was working on.
The other way to get rid of stress is to make an habit of personal prayer. Jesus still wakes up early in the morning, while it still dark and went toff to a solitary place to pray,Mark 1:35. Prayer is a gigantic stress reliever, its is God given tool to let off our anxiety. No matter how busy Jesus got, He made it a practice to spend time with God. If Jesus can spend time to God in prayer while he is busy,how much more can we prayer to Jesus when we need it? I'm still practicing to wake up and pray and still not perfect but have to because if we need something from , only Jesus will give. Just like how out body need food everyday, the same thing Jesus need our prayer everyday.
I always ask my self, What do i need? I remember someone saying to me,when i was in great stress, If you've never committed you life to Christ, you need a transformation. Give your life with all its stress to Him and say, "Lord, please give me a new life. Replace the pressure I feel with the peace you offer. Help me to follow Your principles of stress management". I believe Christ is the stress reliever.
Sometimes, waiting for the right person too long also can be stressful, but I learn that in John 14:27, "Peace i live with you, peace i give you, not as the world gives do I give to you, Let not your heart be trouble, neither let them be afraid".
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