Stress

We’ve all experienced stress, and we all pretty much hate it. So why do we hold on it?

Maybe we hold onto stress because we believe the lie that a stress is healthy—it keeps us on track to succeed and accomplish our goals, right? But honestly, no matter how much we stress, we can’t control our lives. God is sovereign over everything. What would happen if we believed that truth and let go of our stress?

The struggle
The torment
The burden
The worry

Consumes
Ensnares
Destroys
My life.

The fear
The mess
The pain
The weight

It drains
Exhausts
Empties
My soul.

It steals
My time
My faith
My joy.

It bids
Me near
To dread
To fear.

The weight
Is great
Upon
My back.

I just
Can’t do
The stress
Again.

But I
Cannot
Cast off
Its grip.

It holds
Me back
From all
I love.

It keeps
Me from
My hope
Above.

God, please
Just take
This stress
Away.

I do
Not have
To grip
The stress

To bring
Me out
Of my
Own mess.

No, I
Can hold
My God
Instead.

Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to such and such a city, and spend a year there and engage in business and make a profit.” Yet you do not know what your life will be like tomorrow. You are just a vapor that appears for a little while and then vanishes away. Instead, you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we will live and also do this or that.” (James 4:13-15 NASB)