It's nearing that time in the semester when assignments and responsibilities start piling up. When I look at the next few weeks in total, I am easily overwhelmed that there is far too much to do and not enough time to do it all. The only way I've found to avoid being stressed to the point of paralysis is to take it day by day, moment by moment--just put on blinders, look straight ahead, and put one foot in front of the other to take each task as it comes.
It's also a time when I have to confront the often-told lie that God will never give us more than we can handle. Of course He will! We do not glorify Him by being self-sufficient. As my pastor Frank Friedmann says, we were designed to be the plug-in kind. Only by "plugging in" to the vine and allowing Christ's life to flow through us are we operating the way we were designed. And how often I forget this and thrash around trying to do it on my own!
So my goal during these next few weeks of papers, hearings, trials, and finals (and always, of course) is day by day, moment by moment to surrender these things to God, put forth my best effort in His strength, and trust Him with the outcome.
"I am the vine, you are the branches; he who abides in Me and I in him, he bears much fruit, for apart from Me you can do nothing." John 15:5
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