Handling stress… The Christian way!

Let me begin quoting an instance from the bible

I love how when Jesus called people, they "left everything and followed him". Oh, that we might be willing to do the same. Here we see Simon leave everything and just followed Jesus when he called to be fishers of the mankind. Let’s do an analysis here; Simon was married guy which means he would have his own personal family commitments and responsibilities. So it wasn't like some bachelor guy who could easily drop everything. I couldn’t stop imagining what could have possibly run on Simon’s head when Jesus called him to follow him, RIGHT THERE!

Would he have thought about his wife, his family, and their lives ahead? Can you imagine Simon as he walked into the house that night? I suppose we can use our imagination. We do not know if his wife was very willing, if she was, well and good, but what if she wasn't? Talk about his stress. I’m not sure if he would have done justice to the evangelizations he did.

I began to realize that the best way to handle stress is to be in constant touch with god.,

let me talk about a scenario where Jesus was fully man and also FULLY GOD, and a scenario which I feel he would have been through a tremendous stress of his entire time here in the earth.

I have read this temptation of Christ passage and kind of say to myself "that's nice". If Christ was completely man, well it would have been really tough for him to have overcome these temptations and stress. I don't know about you, but I can barely go four hours without a snack, let alone FORTY DAYS with no food! :) Seriously! When I'm hungry, I'm grumpy, and if someone is showing a pack or biscuit in my face, it's going to take more than my willpower to say no. Jesus was hungry. And He was human. He must have been stressed out. He was able to overcome it only because; he had that quiet personal time with god all those forty days!

Well I repeat myself again,

If I need to quote bible again "Jesus often withdrew to lonely places and prayed". Jesus knew that time with the Father was very important. He had handled so many situations with the help of these quiet times he had

If Christ needed that time, how much more do we?Everybody goes through a lean patch in life, could be everyday too. The point is how to overcome it. We have stress at work, home, playing a game, everywhere. I was amazed when I read a stress management article, when it quoted a new born baby in a family is stress!!! To an extent it could be true, but we don’t feel it, is because we celebrate it.

We live our lives or would love to live our lives like our role models. We have role models, because we like them. We believe that they lived a perfect life. To me, Christ is a role model. And I strongly recommend it everybody. Again, I’m not merchandising Christianity here; I’m merchandising the need for our personal relationship with god.

I quoted bible and Jesus is because that’s the only thing I know. And I have a strong feeling that all the prophets who lived in the world would sure had their quite time. They did know how to handle stress, and it’s up to us to learn from them.

Again… If Christ needed that time, how much more do we?