The Way You Look at Stress

If you have ever been tempted to think that Christians should not face stress, ponder the stress that some of the heroes of the Bible faced.  Consider Daniel in the lion's den. If God doesn't bring deliverance, he's on the menu for breakfast the next morning--which would have been “terminal stress.” Think of Esther, the young woman who risked her life going before King Xerxes. "If I perish, I perish!" she cried. Yes, she knew what stress is. Then there is Joseph, falsely convicted of sexual assault, unjustly thrown in prison and seemingly forgotten by God because of his moral uprightness.  Don't think that Joseph was a stranger to stress.