If you want to come through any crisis with your emotional health intact,you need to learn to control what’s controllable in your life and trust God for the rest.
Wow, it took me a lot of years to learn that lesson, and that God is active in our mental,spiritual, and emotional health. Whether we realize it or not. He wants you to make wise choices based on His guidance from the Bible and through prayer.
I think back when everyone was scared to death with the pandemic. But, when you surrender to God what you can’t control, He will work it out for you.
A good biblical example of this is with Abraham in James 2:22, “You see that his faith and his actions were working together,and his faith was made complete by what he did.”
It’s easy to go to extremes with this. For example, you can say it’s all up to God and become too passive to the point where you do nothing or you can act like God doesn’t play a part in your life and assume everything depends on you.
Of course, both extremes are wrong. Maintaining good physical health is about balance, and the same is true with emotional health. Finding a balance that helps us recognize what’s in our control and what’s not is key. When we make wise decisions, based on God’s guidance we learn to,ethos of things that only God can handle. We can do this through reading His Word (The Bible) and talking to Him in prayer.
There’s a movie called “Lord of the Rings” and in it there’s a part where Frodo complains about all the evil and pain in the world. He says to Grandalf, “I wish none of this had happened.”
Grandalf wisely responds to Frodo and says, “So do all who live to see such times; but that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to you.”
There are a lot of things in our lives that we have no control over. You can’t control all the circumstances of life, but you can choose how you respond to things. And that makes all the difference in the world. And God is always there to help you make the right choice if you choose to surrender the things you aren’t able to control.
From Pity to Praise 