Tuesday, November 25, 2014

No fear, no stress, and always peaceful

It is good not to be stressed, ever, and I've wondered before if it's possible to never stress anymore and have peace always.  I learned recently head knowledge through detailed, personal circumstances why I get stressed, and am stressed.  I did not need to see a counselor to know this.  I only needed Who Jesus, the Wonderful Counselor, sent after he ascended into Heaven after His death and resurrection, and that is the Holy Spirit.  I used to be real big into counseling and getting counsel.  While I've been married, it hasn't been hiring a counselor, as I did before I was married.  It's been more like seeing friends as counselors and bothering them with questions.  A blog a few entries ago included the homeschooling program which was cultish my parents enrolled me in, and I had gone to a seminar through that called "The Counseling Seminar," which, what I got out of that after attending, that people could come to me for counsel though I was not qualified except through a certificate for attending their week-long seminar.  I also got from it the impression that counseling is something you don't need qualified hugely for, so a person can ask counsel from everyone and anyone or counseL anyone and everyone.  Though I never called it "needing help," I would bother many people with questions and feel I needed help.  The reason I did this was because I knew the verse from Proverbs in the Bible that says, "In the multitude of counselors, there is safety."  Safety sounded nice, so why not more and more, was my mindset.  Logically, this verse from Proverbs was written before the Wonderful Counselor sent the Holy Spirit, Who is all I needed to reveal this to me today.

Behind my getting stressed, there has been fear.  There are several different fears I've had.  One is a fear of abandonment.  These fears are nothing that have to do with my husband.  They are from areas and times of my life when I felt abandoned.  My husband would never leave me.  It makes sense to take these fears, the causes of my stress, to the Lord, while remembering and being grateful for His promise repeated in Hebrews 13.  He is my Helper, and He will never leave me nor forsake me.  It makes sense to take the fears to God and let Him deal with them instead of letting them influence stress in my life, making my family suffer from having to be around a stressed person.

So I believe it is possible not to ever have fear and not to ever be stressed and to always have peace. 

Thursday I had an opportunity to pass the test of the head knowledge lesson I blogged about Wednesday.  I failed at something and calmly took correction.  Looking forward to applying my head knowledge about no fear, no stress, and always peaceful.

1 comment:

  1. I agree that fear, in one form or another, is the root cause of stress. I've seen that in my own life, and need to remember to trust God in all areas of my life so that fear and stress cannot gain control. Thanks for this encouragement!

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