We keep hearing reports of rising stress levels on the job, whether you are an executive, a manager, or an hourly worker. A researcher named Andronovsky looked at all of the stress factors and condensed all of the effective ways of coping into what he called “a sense of coherence.” People who have a sense of coherence just don’t get stressed out!
Now, you need three things for this sense of coherence:
- being able to comprehend what’s going on (that is, making life make sense)
- being able to manage most of what happens
- and having a life with meaning.
When you look at these three things, you can see how Christians live. The Father gives them the “big picture,” they see their part in managing it with his help, and God’s plan infuses their life with meaning.
God’s way really is the best way to live — stress free!
