So many of us can feel under pressure and there are many types of pressure: space pressure - the size of our homes and property prices; work pressure – limited time to complete a mountain of jobs, or limited jobs available; time pressure – our daily and weekly schedules, maybe long commutes; friends pressure – to catch up with them or be like them; emotional pressure, health pressure, exam pressure, information pressure…… the list goes on.
Looking at information pressure, experts believe that humans have created 5 billion gigabytes of data since the beginning of time until 2003. By 2011 we were creating 5 billion GBs every 2 days and this year we create 5 billion GBs every 10 mins!!
A large proportion of which are cat videos on YouTube (the top ones being watched by over 100 million viewers every day) and my guilty pleasure – Facebook!
Some of us may have found a way to deal with all of the pressure that life throws at us, while others (like me) may still struggle at times. This week we will look at what God says to his people who feel under pressure and explore his promise to bring us to a ‘spacious place’.
Be assured that today “God is wooing you from the jaws of distress to a spacious place free from restriction, to the comfort of your table laden with choice food”. Job 36:16 [NIV]
If you have a long-standing problem, take the weight off your legs (and shoulders) and try kneeling, ask God to lead you to that spacious place.
For the next 5 minutes “Be still and know that I am God” Psalm 46:10 (NIV)
Dawn Milward
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