When You Don't Understand
When you don't understand why certain things are happening in your life, eventually you will. God always reveals the method behind the madness in one way or another. In the meantime, make every effort to avoid unhealthy levels of stressing or worrying about things you have no control over. Remember, worrying/stressing about things you can or cannot control says many things:
1, You don't trust God to manage and/or resolve what you are worrying/stressing about.
2.. You lack faith in His Word which clearly commands us, "Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own." Matthew 6:34
Combatting unhealthy levels of anxiety/worry involes two important steps:
Step One
Surrender. One of my favorite definitions for the words surrender states, "Surrender is the act of yielding, giving up possession, or ceasing resistance..." You need to give up possession of whatever it is that worries you, by surrending to God what you possess:
- Are you worried about your finances?
- Are you worried about your health?
- Are you worried about relationships?
- Are you worried about an unknown future?
Whatever your worry is, I encourage you to take what you now possess and give it to God.
Step Two
Pray. One of many things I love about prayer is that it shifts us from focusing on the things we cannot control to the things we can control. Regardless of what you are going through, you control the decision to pray, and that simple and profound act helps shift you from what's wrong to what's right; from what has you down to what can lift you up; from the negative to the positive.
There are additional steps you can take, but starting with these two steps is a good place to begin. As I state in my book, Conflicts Within, A Journey Through Real and Lasting Change: Either your are going to control the problem or the problem is going to control you. It's your choice. Which action will you decide?
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