time for a...Pop Quiz!!

When faced with a stressful, unrelenting, overwhelming situation, should you:

a.) run five miles.
b.) listen to a genre of music, at a high volume, that would normally stress you out by itself but somehow, in this moment, seems completely appropriate and suitable.
c.) verbally explode about the issue to your roommate or some other unfortunate soul.
d.) a, b, and c
e.) take it to Jesus.

I, having multiple-choiced my way through the majority of my college degree, should totes be able to handle this one. Process of elimination, I learned, is the way to attack every test in this format, soo, let's break it down. K, so (a)... could be (a) - it's succinct enough and everyone knows that exercise releases the flow of endorphins, which is an anti-stress mechanism...we'll keep that one as a potential. (b) is a no-go, wayy too wordy. (c) maybe, but responding to negative emotions with more negative emotions doesn't ever fix anything. And since both (b) and (c) are included in (d), one would assume that I'd clearly have to pick (e)! But for some reason, today, I opted first for (d)... mm, fail.

However, God, in His mercy, after watchin me try everything else, was like, "...you done now?" And then, He speaks His truth.

~"And no creature is hidden from His sight...let us then with confidence draw near to the throne of grace that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need." {hebrews4:13a&16}

Nothing can hide from His omnipresence. Not even the stuff that hits us when He seems so disconnected from our daily routine. He's all over it...like white on rice. And when I actually remember that, I can move forward with confidence (definition: "the feeling or belief that one can rely on someone or something; firm trust.") because He TELLS me I can have confidence, and who the heck am I to doubt the God of the Universe?? He gives grace and mercy, and He gives it just when we need it. Awesome.

Not gonna lie, though...the five mile run was pretty satisfying in it's own way, too. :)


~bethie