The Choice Is Yours: Live In The World's Stress, Or Live In God's Peace?

"Every day brings a choice: to practice stress or to practice peace." Joan Borysenko

 No matter what it is that may be going on in your life today, I want to present you with a choice; a choice that we have always had, but that we most likely didn't know was there. So, the choice is, are you going to live today being stressed? Or are you going to live today full of peace?
 Now, think about it this way; the world offers us stress. The world offers us all of that weight that we take upon our shoulders, while on the other hand God is offering us peace. "The peace that transcends all understanding," (Philippians 4:7) and it is our choice to make as of which one we are going to take up in our daily walk. But see, so many times we take up the stress that the world has to offer. We let the business and chaos overwhelm us and take us over, but that is only because we are letting it. We already have a peace that God has given us, a peace that we have in Him, within us, but we are too busy focused on the stress all around us, that we just ignore it.
 But listen to me today, for if you have the choice, I want you to start deciding today that you are going to practice peace rather than stress. I want you to start using this gift that God has given you that goes untouched in so many aspects of our lives, so much so that we are just putting it to waste! I want you to constantly use this peace that God has for you; when you face a difficult situation that you don't understand, tap into that peace, and know that this is God's plan for your life. If something isn't working out like you had hoped it would, tap into that peace, and know that if God has it to happen, it will. See, for every fear and worry that we have, God's peace can counteract that, God's peace can overcome that, that is, as long as we make the choice.
 So today, make that choice, choose peace, and watch God work in your life like never before. You will feel the weight of all of the stresses of this world being lifted off of your shoulders when you rest in something that is not of this world. So go out today, and everyday after that, and live in that peace.