Overflow

With some big projects on my plate today, and requests coming at me from out of the woodwork, I have to stop and remember - 

Overload is my killer.

But God loves me so much, he’ll take care of all the details, if I let him.   

So, I don’t have to be overloaded… I can be overflowing.   

I also thought about this journey I am on.  I don’t have to strain to accomplish wellness or holiness.  He who works without strain will do the work in and with me.

Maybe someone else needs to remember this today, too. 

The below excerpt is from "Streams in the Desert" (emphasis mine): 

Walk Without Strain
"And he saw them toiling in rowing" (Mark 6:48).

Straining, driving effort does not accomplish the work God gives man to do. Only God Himself, who always works without strain, and who never overworks, can do the work that He assigns to His children. When they restfully trust Him to do it, it will be well done and completely done. 

The way to let Him do His work through us is to 

partake of Christ so fully, by faith, that He more than fills our life.

A man who had learned this secret once said: "I came to Jesus and I drank, and I do not think that I shall ever be thirsty again. I have taken for my motto, 'Not overwork, but overflow'; and already it has made all the difference in my life."

There is no effort in overflow.

It is quietly irresistible. 

It is the normal life of omnipotent and ceaseless accomplishment 

into which Christ invites us today and always.