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> Good morning everyone,
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> Isaiah 26:3-You keep him in perfect peace
> whose mind is stayed on you,
> because he trusts in you.
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> When you think about stress or what in particularly stresses you out, I think we tend to look at it from the amount of something we have to do, or a specific task, or enduring something difficult, etc. But whatever it is, if we see stress as a means to get us to see that our lives are meant to be bigger than what we alone could handle, than stress can have a positive purpose as opposed to a negative one?

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> Most people in general find stress as negative because it can cause us to worry, and eventually lead to physical, mental, and spiritual illnesses. It is proven in studies that food isn’t the reason people are dying from fatal diseases like heart disease. But "comfort foods" which are usually unhealthy, are eaten in excess to find comfort from stress, leading to such diseases. Such a study shows that when people find themselves facing the truth of life’s demands (stress), we are more prone to reach in excess for food, sex, drugs, alcohol, selfish ambition, etc. to deal with our limitations to find "peace" amidst the stress.

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> Yet where is God in all this? I hate stress, but I generally hate it because I want to be comfortable/stress free, and God keeps reminding me that life is not ordained for me to handle it without Him, so forget it! We also help in making our live’s overwhelming, with sins, keeping "baggage", and scheduling more things than necessary. But even without those issues we add, I think life and the way Americans especially are dying from "stress", life is proven to be literally impossible to bear peacefully without a real relationship with Christ. Stress will always be with us, but are you disrupting it’s true purpose by not living with a focus that trust in the Lord’s ability and not your own?

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> In His Love, Ld