Are you troubled? Are you overwhelmed by your life’s circumstances? Are you facing the impossible? Jesus’ timeless invitation says, “Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.” Matthew 11:28.

David was overwhelmed. Psalm 61:1-2 says, “Hear my cry, O God; attend to my prayer, From the end of the earth I will cry to You, when my heart is overwhelmed; lead me to the rock that is higher than I.”

We get overwhelmed when our troubles loom over us like a giant impossibility. We can draw an application from David’s prayer. When we are stressed, we can reset by coming to the Lord. Hiding in Him through the promises of His word will take us from fight or flight to rest and digest.

If we don’t turn to the Lord, we will turn to our own thoughts of what to do. He is the only One who has the answer. Otherwise we will be like the hamster on the wheel. A racing mind only keeps us in our sympathetic and emotional exhaustion.