I tend to be an easy going person, letting stress or worry roll off my back. However, as each day passes without a call, email or sign about my future, stress is beginning to amass. As bills and debt accumulate daily, I feel as if I am powerless as the next wave of stress comes crashing through, sucking me into an under tow of worry.
If anyone understood stress, it was Moses in Exodus 18. Before Jethro intervened, Moses was overwhelmed by his responsibilities as the only judge in all of Israel, Exodus 18:13-16. From morning til evening, 6 days of week, Moses tried to settle any and every kind of dispute throughout the land. Finally, Jethro steps in to help elevate the stress Moses was experiencing, Exodus 18:17-23. The solution was simple: delegate responsibility to others, train and equip qualified people to become petit judges and rule as the Supreme Judge, taking only the difficult cases.
In the New Testament, there is a solution to accumulating stress, take it to the cross. Although, it is not as easy as it appears. Its one thing to say you are going to leave your burdens at the cross, its another thing to actually let go. Just as Moses obeyed the words of Jethro in Exodus 18:24-26, I need to submit to Jesus’ request in Matthew 11:28-30. As people wave the white flag and surrender to the Lord Jesus Christ, the tide will wash accumulating stress out to sea. As the group David and the Giants once sang, Let Go and Let God!
by Jay Mankus
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