Thursday, February 18, 2010

Burnout

It's something that happens in life. Some people have it happen all the time, some people only have it happen once or twice. The fact is though that it's our fault.

Recently I got a really bad case of burnout. My life is so hectic, I'm doing so many good things that I run out of energy and the "go" to do it. I start to turn into a stress case, which unfortunately for my family will randomly blow up, because I just have so many things to do and make sure it all works. However, there was a reason I burned out...cause God wanted me to.

In order to show me that "I" was taking responsibility for everything and depending on "my" energy and go to do all these good things, he let me try to depend on myself and discover I was vincible (opposite of invincible). I had to recognize that I, in truth, am nothing in Christ; even if I was doing all the things God wanted me to do I was going to fail unless I did it in His strength.

As I return to relying on God's strength to work through me as his tool, He has put in me "His" energy and "His" go. I don't have to stress, I don't have to worry about tomorrow. Instead I can focus on doing the best I can with today, knowing that he will give me what I need for tomorrow.