Are you straining?

"He saw the disciples straining at the oars." Mark 6:48

Straining and striving does not accomplish the work God gives us to do. Only God Himself, who always works wihtout stress and strain and who never overworks, can do the work He assigns to His chidlren. When we restfully trust Him to do it, the work will be completed and will be done well. And the way to let Him do the work through us is to so fully abide in Christ by faith that He fills us to overflowing.

A man who learned this secret once said, "I came to Jesus and drank, and I believe I will never be thirsty again. My life's motto has become 'Not overwork, but overflow', and it has already made all the difference in my life."

There is no straining effort in an overflowing life, and it is quietly irresistible. It is the normal life of omnipotent and ceaseless accomplishment into which Christ invites each of us to enter -- today and always. ~ Streams in the Desert