Confess to Stress

Stress. This simple word seems to be the cause of every problem, situation, health issue, or mental breakdown faced by today’s families. When a person’s blood pressure goes high, it is because of stress. If one gets a bad attitude with the spouse or kids, it is stress. What about the heart attacks? You are right, it is stress. People are even having nervous breakdowns because of stress. In fact, stress has caused so many maladies that it seems everywhere you turn, you see some new way to combat stress. There are “stress relief” workouts at the local gym. (Of course they are now open all night to accommodate your stressful and busy days!) You can take Yoga classes, dance lessons, and relaxation seminars. You can learn to breathe right, eat right, sleep right, and think right. You can meditate, participate, rededicate, and vacate. You can even go to the herbal store and medicate! All of these processes are guaranteed your stress to eradicate!

In this book, I would like to offer a new (yet as old as the world) and innovative alternative to the standard remedies for stress. The reality is stress can be controlled! However, it is not something that needs medicine, dieting, exercise and psychiatrists. Those strategies are effective, but they only relieve the symptoms of stress. They treat the outward manifestations of a bigger problem. The truth is that we have caused ourselves to be stressed! The symptoms that show on the outside are really just the evidence of something more deeply rooted on the inside. I propose to show you four Biblical principles that will address these problems and help change you on the inside. Then, when the inside is changed, stress will leave, you will be more relaxed, and your symptoms will disappear!