Some days I just don’t want to go to work and don’t really feel like doing anything. Sometimes it is being tired from long days and sometimes it is being lazy. Sometimes it is the stress of the job or everyday life that weighs me down to the point that I just want to go someplace by myself and do nothing. Some days are great, energizing days, but some are not.
On those days that I am feeling the weight of life and the stress of the day is starting to get to me, I have to stop and ask myself where this stress is coming from. Sometimes it is from outside sources and their expectations and demands, but most of the time it is un-necessary stress that I have placed on myself. My own expectations and demands, my own goals and dreams, my own decisions, and my own drive to “fix everything”. It is generally stress that I have placed on myself. Even my financial stresses are caused by my own decisions and desires to have or to do something that I can’t, or shouldn’t, afford.
When you are having one of those days, take a minute to stop and ask yourself where this feeling of stress is coming from. When I choose to seek my own desires or try to be the “hero” in life. When I choose to put me first rather than put God first, that is when I feel the most stressed. When I choose to “seek first the kingdom of God”, that is when I feel the most at peace and when life seems to fall into place.
What’s your day like today?
What causes fights and quarrels among you? Don’t they come from your desires that battle within you? You desire but do not have, so you kill. You covet but you cannot get what you want, so you quarrel and fight. You do not have because you do not ask God. When you ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on your pleasures.
James 4: 1-3
Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, rejoice. Let your reasonableness be known to everyone. The Lord is at hand; do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.
Philippians 4: 4-7
