If I have God's peace, why am I so stressed? Moments that Matter, Christian Questions
Christians should NOT be wishing for stress-free lives! Why? Wouldn’t no stress make worshipping God easier? Perhaps, but our lives are supposed to be transformation focused, transforming from sinful humans following sinful desires to spiritually minded disciples following in Jesus’ footsteps.
In a recent podcast we observed that a growing and maturing agenda always produces stress. This is good! Positive stress provokes Christlikeness. It is negative stress that batters and bruises our hearts and minds. Negative stressors bring us worry, anxiety, doubt, fear, and rationalization. So how can we have just positive stresses in life?
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The challenge is that all of our experiences, tests and opportunities can become positive or negative stressors. It’s not the experience that needs changing, it’s how we process the experience that determines what level of positive or negative stress our lives hold.
How do we figure this all out? What steps can we make to change how we see stress in our lives and increase God's peace? For the answers to these questions and supporting scriptures listen to the full podcast:
https://christianquestions.com/character/1274-stressed/
