Many people become stressed because they don’t trust God to provide the basic necessities of life. The Bible tells us not to be anxious about your life. This is why we get stressed in the first place; we worry about providing for ourselves and our loved ones. We stress over money because we never seem to feel that we have enough. We worry about making ends meet, often living paycheck to paycheck. Or we become consumed by materialism and in turn, stressed out about maintaining our lifestyle. Materialism inevitably leads to stress because when we seek the world’s goods, we have fallen for the deceitfulness of Satan.  The starting point for dealing with stress is Jesus Christ. We desperately need Him in our lives. We need Him because He is the only one who can give us the strength to cope with the troubles in our lives. Believing in Him does not mean that we will have a trouble-free life or that we will not succumb to stress in our lives. It simply means that a life without Jesus Christ makes coping with stress an impossible and often debilitating task.