Worry and Stress November 10, 2010

“ Worry implies that we don’t quite trust that God is big enough, powerful enough, or loving enough to take care of what’s happening in our lives.

Stress says that the things we are involved in are important enough to merit our impatience, or lack of grace toward others, or our tight grip of control.

Basically, these two behaviors communicate that it’s okay to sin and not trust God because the stuff in my life is somehow exceptional. Both worry and stress reek of arrogance.”

Francis Chan in Crazy Love

This is something that has been constantly on my mind the last week or so. I have been overwhelmed with all I must accomplish before graduation but my workload at the church hasn’t slowed at all either. Basically I felt like I had hit a wall and I was allowing my worry and stress to overwhelm me and it was starting to drain some of my joy.

I was reminded of chapter 2 in Crazy Love as I was feeling justified in all of my worry and stress. How arrogant! So, I am turning it over to Christ… I am struggling with not taking it back every once and a while and I know there is much I must do on my end to completely alleviate  the reasons for my worry and stress but I have been reminded He is God, I am not. I can trust Him in the midst of the whirlwind!

God’s words are better than our own…

And let us not grow weary of doing good, for in due season we will reap, if we do not give up. (Galatians 6:9 ESV)

As for you, brothers, do not grow weary in doing good. (2 Thessalonians 3:13 ESV)

Consider him who endured from sinners such hostility against himself, so that you may not grow weary or fainthearted. (Hebrews 12:3 ESV)

Have you not known? Have you not heard? The LORD is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He does not faint or grow weary; his understanding is unsearchable. He gives power to the faint, and to him who has no might he increases strength. Even youths shall faint and be weary, and young men shall fall exhausted; but they who wait for the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint. (Isaiah 40:28-31 ESV)