Psalm 131

“Lord, my heart is not haughty, nor my eyes lofty, neither do I concern myself with great matters, nor with things to profound for me.
Surely I have calmed and quieted my soul, like a weaned child with his mother; like a weaned child is my soul within me.
O Israel, hope in the Lord from this time forth and forever.”

What is stress? The American Heritage College Dictionary (hey, it’s all I’ve got right now!) defines it as “A state of extreme difficulty, pressure or strain.” In other words, it is from facing circumstances beyond our control. With everything in our lives that we are juggling, we easily forget that we weren’t designed to handle everything, nor were we meant to know everything. In all things the Holy Spirit should be our guide. If we are becoming overwhelmed with what we are facing, be it school, family, friends, sin, any of these things, then we should be praying. I know for myself, the more stressed I become, the less I listen to the Lord. The enemy loves to keep us running in circles, convinced that we accomplishing much when we are only draining the tank. I know it’s not easy, but I encourage everyone along with myself to make not just this semester, but the rest of our lives to be as free from stress as possible. Jesus tells us “My yoke is easy and my burden is light” (I John 5:3), and we should hold this as gospel truth, Amen? As we grow more stressed, we lose our spirit of thankfulness, followed by our garments of humility, putting us in a dangerous place indeed. We need God to take his ‘super’ and put it on our ‘natural’, so keep our eyes toward our Savior, no matter what flood comes our way!