Not Overwork, Overflow

Streams in the Desert September 3

"And He saw them toiling in rowing." MK 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. --- Sunday School Times.

 

I am now beginning to experience how meditative prayer can lead to overflow. As I wait in silence for The Lord, even when I do not sense it, He fills me to overflowing and does His work in me. From this time with Him, my life overflows.

 

Come, Lord, overflow my life with Your presence, grace and power. Amen.

 

 

 

Radical acceptance requires Total Surrender to the Holy Spirit.