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God lives and works today.

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Can we testify to His reality in our

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daily work?

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Or is being overworked one of the main

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barriers between us and God, often separating us

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from Him and getting us down?

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If you're familiar with the difficulties of too

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much work to do, here is some helpful

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advice in today's meditation by Basilea Schlink called,

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God is My Supervisor.

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We have often said or heard other people

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say, this work is over my head.

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When we don't know how to go on

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or how to master the job ahead of

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us, we might even exclaim, this work is

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killing me, it's driving me to exhaustion.

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And so we become irritated, reluctant to continue.

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In this way we wear ourselves out, perhaps

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even making ourselves ill.

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And in spite of all of our efforts,

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we find no solution to the problem.

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To be sure, we often think the solution

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to the heavy workload lies in just working

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faster.

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But then we come into a mad rush,

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through which our problems only increase.

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And as a result, the work generally turns

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out worse.

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And it costs us twice as much time.

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In addition, now we really exhaust all of

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our energy.

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There have been times in my life, too,

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when the burdens of work almost crushed me

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to death, when I scarcely saw how to

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go on, and I didn't know how I

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would ever finish with all of my work

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and responsibilities.

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But then the Lord showed me that success

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in finishing all the work hinged upon my

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remaining in total dependence upon Him, right in

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the midst of my work.

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That meant I was only to do what

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He told me to do.

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I realized how often this or that seemed

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so important for me to do, while I

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never considered that maybe the Lord didn't want

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me to do that job.

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And for this reason, I often didn't get

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everything done, simply because I worked in self

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-will, just to get something finished, or because

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I enjoyed doing it at the moment.

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When we do our work in disobedience, no

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blessing can be upon it.

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Then the time is too short, and we

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become overworked.

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However, when we do everything in obedience towards

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God, we will ask Him to tell us

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which task is the most urgent, what He

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would have us do next.

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Then we will know how to apportion our

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time for the different responsibilities, and we'll be

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able to discern which ones are the most

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urgent and pressing.

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And then we will experience that we don't

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get into a panic, that our strength isn't

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overtaxed, and the work will still be finished

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on time.

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I can testify that the Lord actually did

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show me how to cope with having too

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much work to do.

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And then my burdens brought me a great

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gain, for they helped me to live daily

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as a trusting child who holds on to

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the hand of the Heavenly Father, and only

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asks to do His will.

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O Father of compassion, my will and my

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whole being I place within Thine arms of

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love.

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My restless heart will quiet find peace and

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true contentment within Thy will of perfect love.

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