Have you lately told yourself that something needs to change in your life’s routine? Have you realized that these days, you’re more tired, easily angered, stressed, overworked, and certainty underpaid? That’s the kind of complaints I have been hearing lately.
People are burnout.
Burnout is a state of chronic stress that can take root in your personal and professional life, leading to physical and emotional exhaustion, detachment, overwhelming feelings of negativity, perceived professional inefficacy, and other changes in your mood and behavior.
It’s no wonder our career, friendships, and relationships are floating away and are drowning in tidal waves.
A post I read this week had shared this thought;
“Dr Richard Swenson says, ‘You can go into the woods, select a ten-foot sapling, bend it over, and when you release it, it will return to its normal height. But if you keep bending it further and further, it will stay down. With stress, first you bend, and then you recover’.
With burnout, first you bend, and then you break – and you stay broken.
… Exhaustion is real and it’s common and it’s dangerous; it leads to irritability, anger, paranoia, headaches, ulcers, depression, and suicide.
Burnout causes something inside you to break; you don’t care who sees or hears, you just want out.
The good news is you can recover your passion, enthusiasm, productivity, and excellence, but it takes time and the healing is mostly by scar formation.
Burnout is common among the spiritually minded who are sensitive…They see pain and internalise it. They want to help the wounded…they don’t realise they were never designed to carry the world on their backs.
So what’s the remedy?
Of course, when my mind wonders over a topic or event, the first place I go to for comfort, answers, connection, and understanding is the B-I-B-L-E (This is where I break out singing😎… 🎶Yes, that’s the book for me, I stand alone on the word of God, the B-I-B-L-E🎶
‘Rest in the shadow of the Almighty’ (Psalm 91:1 NLT). But to receive Psalm 91’s benefits, you need to meet its conditions by making God your dwelling place, abiding in Him, and submitting to His authority.
‘I will say of the Lord, He is my refuge and my fortress…in him will I trust’ .
Psalm 91: 2 KJV
Note the word ‘say’. What you say can mean life or death (see Proverbs 18:21). It can put you over the top or put you under.
So today, read God’s Word, internalize and personalize and verbalize it, and your life will take an upward swing.”
As said in one of my favorite songs;
"Sometimes you have to speak a word over yourself Depression is all around But God is present help Well, the enemy created walls But remember giants, they do fall Speak over yourselfhttps://youtu.be/JbEaftzaFWAEncourage yourself in the Lord.
I looked at the word Burnout and I took the word Run out of it. I looked at the word Stress and I took the word Rest out of it.This is telling me that when I am Burnout I am to run to God. God will give me Rest.
Exodus 33:14. And he said my presence will go with you, and I will give you rest.
Praise God for rest! The best remedy for stress is rest. Holy Sabbath day of rest, by our Master richly blessed.Praise God for the Sabbath Rest. Happy Sabbath!
Burnt out is one of the devils tool and he uses it to get at the best of us. When we are burnt out we get frustrated, irritated,lazy, self centered, and all negative things comes up before us and our behavior is not of the best then afterwards, when we get over and think of our behavior we often feels bad and that’s what the devil wants he laughs at us.
Let us try our best to be temporary, not to burn out ourselves.
Psa 34:7 says
The angel of the Lord encamps around them that fears him and delivers them.
Let us be on guard
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