Today I want to talk about a topic that was requested recently, how can we stand strong against the pressures of today’s world

How are we doing with this friend? How often do you find yourself looking to what you can see, right now, and just following the crowd?  the patterns of this world? Well what can that look like, my friend suggested some of these pressures but also, when I googled these were some of  I found that were common in todays day, and I can relate and agree, how about you? Here are some examples:

-Perfection or the appearance of

-Social media posts that shock for followers, likes

-Productivity, equating busyness to success, exhaustion is a badge of honor

-Accomplishments as worth

-Keeping up with unrealistic beauty standards especially set by celebrities

-Sex, having sex with multiple partners or our partner before marriage

-Gossip-slandering others because we are venting, guilty

-Success, being measured by our career, education and social media likes, feeling like we should have achieved things by now, when we should be ok with our pace

-Drugs to numb, fit in, forget

-Alcohol, same…….for stress etc.

I share how I am working on this and how we can look to Jesus for all the help we need.