Don’t get stressed

I think I’m learning not to get stressed like I used. That’s personal growth for me. I’m getting better at approaching things with a more level-headed mindset. Maybe I’ve learned that getting stressed doesn’t really pay off.

The valuable lessons we learn in life teach us how to handle similar circumstances in the future. I guess that’s why I’m learning not to allow stress to get the better of me. I think I have the advantage of seeing, from past experiences, that getting stressed about it didn’t help. And the situation was always taken care of somehow. But recognizing the source of our stress can help us mitigate its effects.

Sometimes we find we are stressed just because we are trying to take on too much at once. When we find ourselves doing this, we need to just step back and do first things first. What do I really need to handle right now? If I can break things down in to manageable chunks, it’s less overwhelming.

Other times it’s not the number of things facing us, but the enormity of just one thing that we’re facing. That’s when we need to place that big thing in perspective. Making something bigger than it is can be the biggest hindrance to dealing with it. We sometimes need to shrink it down to size. There’s often an answer that we may not be seeing just because we’ve made the problem too big in our minds.

Many things can help us in diminishing our stress levels. When we start feeling the pressures of life, I’ve found exercise can be helpful. Exercise is kind of like a metaphorical stress ball. You know, one of those things people have sitting at their desks when they’re feeling stressed. It’s an outlet for us to let go of aggression or any anxiety.

I think besides knowing how to handle stress, it’s also important that we know what stress is and where it comes from. The thing stress is based on is fear and worry. Because, at the end of the day, the real reason we’re stressed about something is because we’re worried about something. We’re worried that we won’t be able to handle the situation, or the person, or that we won’t find a solution. And when we approach things with that kind of thinking, then it just adds difficulty to the situation—adding stress to stress. These things tend to snowball and get out of hand until we are a big ball of nerves and rendered inert and implacable.

And that’s one of the biggest reason not to get stressed. We are not doing ourselves, or anyone else, any favors in that instance. It’s best to let level heads prevail. But this is just scratching the surface. There’s more to handling stress than just the things mentioned above. There’s a perspective I have yet to mention here. Stress can, not just be managed, but overcome and conquered in our lives.

…Let’s go deeper

Knowing God is with us in times of difficulty is the greatest comfort we can have. God doesn’t want us to be stressed. And while we can do things to help manage our stress, God actually wants to take our stress from us. God has given us a number of great promises regarding our cares and worries.

AV Philippians 4:6: “Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.” The great thing is God has given us the privilege to not be careful for anything. He’s given us this privilege through prayer. He wants us to give to Him our worries, concerns and cares. When we do this with a thankful heart, He honors that.
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AV 1 Peter 5:7: “Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you.” When I think about us ‘casting’ our care upon Him, I think about us allowing Him to carry the load. He’s asking to carry our load for us. So, why are we still carrying it? We can take it to Him through prayer. He is looking for our trust to be so placed in Him, that we fully rely on Him to take care of us. The reason we can have confidence in this is because He cares for us.

AV Psalms 55:22: “Cast thy burden upon the LORD, and he shall sustain thee: he shall never suffer the righteous to be moved.” Sometimes we need to be sustained through difficult times. And God will sustain us when we are fully relying on Him. The promise is that we cannot be moved when we trust Him with our cares.

AV Proverbs 3:5-6: “Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.” Once we have fully let go of our cares. Our next part is to trust Him to lead and direct us. If we need to know what to do, then we need to ask Him and trust that He will tell us what we need to know. Sometimes we are tempted to lean to our own understanding of things. But we need to acknowledge Him in everything we do. When we do that, He will lead us and guide us to where we need to be. And that’s the best way for us not to be stressed.

AV Philippians 4:6: “Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.”