My Parents Were Stressed Out

 "Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest." (Matthew 11:28)

My parents did not believe that Jesus is an active Savior.

They believed a mixture, half law and half grace.

They looked at life as a serious of challenges and hardships which would be too great for them to overcome, unless they tried harder and harder.

They also struggled with high blood pressure. Both of them did.

And now I have high blood pressure. I am taking medications for it, so that my inward parts are not ravaged by the high stress.

Still, I have not been afraid one bit to pray to Daddy God: "Please release me, relieve me, heal me of high blood pressure."

There are billions of people around the world who do not struggle with high blood pressure. They have difficult jobs. They face stressors of all kinds in their life.

Why are they any different, or any special compared to me?

There's really no reason for it.

But I do believe now I know why my parents struggled with high BP. They looked to themselves to supply all resources. They did not see Daddy God as "A God to Them."

In other words, they had no knowledge of the New Covenant.

And for anyone who needs a reminder, here you go!

"31Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah: 32Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they brake, although I was an husband unto them, saith the LORD: 33But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the LORD, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people. 34And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the LORD: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the LORD: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more." (Jeremiah 31:31-34)

There you go!

Daddy God is a GOD TO ME! Why? 

Because of Jesus, who was made sin that I might become the righteousness of God in Him (2 Corinthians 5:21).

This is the process by which people are set free. We are not supposed to figure everything out on our own.

We are not supposed to live in our heads. We are not supposed to depend on ourselves or defend ourselves.

We are called to rest in HIM!

He is our rest!

It all makes sense now, and I now understand why my parents were so stressed out, so unhappy, so unhealthy, so full of toils and troubles.

I now understand why my parents died early, too.