Job and the Mind Storm
Job 42:7-17, Job 42:1-6, Job 38:1--41:34
Sermon
by Lori Wagner

Overthinking is one of the worst stress inducers in our lives. We all know the overthinker –the one who, no matter what the situation is, will make mountains out of molehills and declare tragedy the moment something doesn’t go as planned. Or that person who, when contemplating a change or an event, will worry about every detail so much that he or she derives no enjoyment whatsoever from the event itself.

There are “go-with-the-flow” people. And the upright and the uptight. They overthink everything. And the more they play out every scenario from a to z, the more they stress out to the nth degree about everything.

One of the most common symptoms of an overthinker is an over-talker. Over-talkers are different from over-sharers. Over-talkers don’t share too much. They just talk too much. Th…

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