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Try to hold water in your hand.
Or air. Or love, or good intentions, or an admiring glance.
We can’t. It’s impossible. It slips away like the evening sun. It’s simply gone, and we can’t bring it back.
Yet, we all do a pretty good job of bottling up stress, holding it inside, and letting it make us miserable.
We must learn to let it go. Can we change whether the stock market will rise or fall? Will the earthquake decide not to shake because we worry it into stability? Or will the hurricane be calmed because of our dread?
If we can’t control it, turn it over to God. He’s the one that controls the winds and the waves. He provides us with sustenance. Our future is totally in his hands. Without him, we are as nothing, anyway.
Psalm 121:3 is our confidence that God is always aware of our concerns.
“He will not let your foot be moved; he who keeps you will not slumber.”
Matthew 6:26 says our value to God is far above our value to ourselves.
“Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they?”
Psalm 145:18 assures us we can put every stressful moment on God’s shoulders, and he can carry them all.
“The Lord is near to all who call on him, to all who call on him in truth.”
Psalm 73:25 is the cry from our heart. When we desire God above all else, he will become our focus, and the worries of the world will fade into the background.
“Whom have I in heaven but you? And there is nothing on earth that I desire besides you.”
We can’t resolve the things we worry about, so why continue to live in stress? Release it to God, and live in his peace and assurance. It’s the only way to find happiness in a world that often makes us want to pull our hair from our head.
Christ is our stress relief, and he carries us when we can no longer walk alone.
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