It seems 'drama queening' is using too much energy on a particular situation. When we spend there, we are left with less energy to find God's less stressful response, the one he will guide us toward when we ask.
God, how do I grow up in my responses to others?
He answers through Paul in Romans 12:1:
[Place your life before God] So here's what I want you to do, God helping you: Take your everyday, ordinary life--your sleeping, eating, going-to-work, and walking-around life--and place it before God as an offering.God, I give you my everyday life as an offering.
Embracing what God does for you is the best thing you can do for him.God, help me spend my energy and attention on embracing what you do for me.
Don't become so well-adjusted to your culture that you fit into it without even thinking. Instead, fix your attention on God.God, show me how to keep you in my thoughts more often so I have less attention to react the way culture would tempt me--with drama and cultural immaturity.
You'll be changed from the inside out. Readily recognize what he wants from you, and quickly respond to it.God, I'm ready to be changed from the inside out. Then I'll know what is my best response.
Unlike the culture around you, always dragging you down to its level of immaturity, God brings the best out of you, develops well-formed maturity in you.God, when you reign in my responses, drama can no longer be queen.
Tomorrow: A closer look at cultural immaturity.
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