Countless, numerous thoughts have been lingering on my mind from the very start of this busy week. I didn't have time to readily pour out my heart and express it all in writing because I was full-packed with school works wherein computer time meant research and more research. (kincareer ang pagka-busy :])
But after the blast of busyness, I can now let out a sigh. I had some form of celebration yesterday with my new found Christian friends and classmates. [Mcdo again?! :D]
"God has people for His people." and "Haloo! New friends! New sisters in Christ :) uhm... I enjoyed our conversation :)" - I quote from their dearest text messages :))
God is just so good! Just when I feel alone or heavy - He suddenly makes me smile and makes me see that everything will be alright especially with the friends - great blessings He intentionally designed to be my classmates!
Well, I was supposed to write about it yesterday, but I wast stuck in reading Ate Joan's blogs and in thinking of what exactly from the "countless, numerous thoughts" I'll write.
What has been dominating my mind is "The Principle of Overload" that our Sports and Recreation professor mentioned yesterday. So I'll stick with it and it's the culprit why I entitled my blog this way :D.
Simply put and in relation to real life, this principle means that the more pressure or difficulties in life we encounter, the better we become in handling such and the greater the growth.
To me, God has impressed a different kind of Overload Principle. The Overload Principle- God's version.
As it had been echoing in my daily thoughts (from a quotation or something I've read once):
"Nothing starts easy. Everything begins with some level of difficulty."
Waking up and having my devotion early in the morning takes a lot of "Lord. five more minutes please?". Taking a bath takes me moments of staring blankly before I could drench myself in water. Walking inside the classroom, being with new classmates and new professors would need a lot of boost in self-confidence on my part and especially adjustment. Making assignments, researches, and reports would never be so easy that you could take them so lightly.
It isn't even a weak that we're having classes but I could feel that this beginning is an overload for me.
But once very early in the morning, when I still needed to read my report and some research, I could not utter anything in my prayer, except, "Lord, I surrender... I can't do anything." (I could vividly remember how heavy I felt)
God's principle when He gives you an overload is to make you fall down on your knees and say "All I need is You Lord."
It makes you like a child dependent to a father, and it brings you closest to Him, aware and desperate for His presence wherever you go and whatever you do.
God's almost tangible pat on my back and very clear message for me were His words:
Psalm 10
12 Arise O Lord, O God, lift up your hand, forget not the afflicted.
14 ... to you the helpless commits himself; you have been the helper of the fatherless.
16 The Lord is king forever and ever...
17 O Lord, you hear the desire of the afflicted, you will strengthen their heart, you will incline your ear.
I shared it to a friend of mine and she told me God's message to her about our situation. God said that if she was in a regular class she would trust her own strength and capabilities, but now that God has placed her to where we are now - she would not trust herself but God.
That is also what God wants to tells us. An overload for us is not even the slightest piece of cake for Him. [It's an easier than the easiest load for Him] An overload leads us in total, complete dependence to Him and nothingness without Him.
And I thought, God isn't selfish He wants you to have a pressuring overload because He just wants (as in demanding and controlling you to do so) you to trust Him. An overload is inevitable and in fact, it is always there.
Two choices exist - carry it all by yourself or throw it all to God and depend on Him fully.
There never existed another better choice than the latter.
But after the blast of busyness, I can now let out a sigh. I had some form of celebration yesterday with my new found Christian friends and classmates. [Mcdo again?! :D]
"God has people for His people." and "Haloo! New friends! New sisters in Christ :) uhm... I enjoyed our conversation :)" - I quote from their dearest text messages :))
God is just so good! Just when I feel alone or heavy - He suddenly makes me smile and makes me see that everything will be alright especially with the friends - great blessings He intentionally designed to be my classmates!
Well, I was supposed to write about it yesterday, but I wast stuck in reading Ate Joan's blogs and in thinking of what exactly from the "countless, numerous thoughts" I'll write.
What has been dominating my mind is "The Principle of Overload" that our Sports and Recreation professor mentioned yesterday. So I'll stick with it and it's the culprit why I entitled my blog this way :D.
Simply put and in relation to real life, this principle means that the more pressure or difficulties in life we encounter, the better we become in handling such and the greater the growth.
To me, God has impressed a different kind of Overload Principle. The Overload Principle- God's version.
As it had been echoing in my daily thoughts (from a quotation or something I've read once):
"Nothing starts easy. Everything begins with some level of difficulty."
Waking up and having my devotion early in the morning takes a lot of "Lord. five more minutes please?". Taking a bath takes me moments of staring blankly before I could drench myself in water. Walking inside the classroom, being with new classmates and new professors would need a lot of boost in self-confidence on my part and especially adjustment. Making assignments, researches, and reports would never be so easy that you could take them so lightly.
It isn't even a weak that we're having classes but I could feel that this beginning is an overload for me.
But once very early in the morning, when I still needed to read my report and some research, I could not utter anything in my prayer, except, "Lord, I surrender... I can't do anything." (I could vividly remember how heavy I felt)
God's principle when He gives you an overload is to make you fall down on your knees and say "All I need is You Lord."
It makes you like a child dependent to a father, and it brings you closest to Him, aware and desperate for His presence wherever you go and whatever you do.
God's almost tangible pat on my back and very clear message for me were His words:
Psalm 10
12 Arise O Lord, O God, lift up your hand, forget not the afflicted.
14 ... to you the helpless commits himself; you have been the helper of the fatherless.
16 The Lord is king forever and ever...
17 O Lord, you hear the desire of the afflicted, you will strengthen their heart, you will incline your ear.
I shared it to a friend of mine and she told me God's message to her about our situation. God said that if she was in a regular class she would trust her own strength and capabilities, but now that God has placed her to where we are now - she would not trust herself but God.
That is also what God wants to tells us. An overload for us is not even the slightest piece of cake for Him. [It's an easier than the easiest load for Him] An overload leads us in total, complete dependence to Him and nothingness without Him.
And I thought, God isn't selfish He wants you to have a pressuring overload because He just wants (as in demanding and controlling you to do so) you to trust Him. An overload is inevitable and in fact, it is always there.
Two choices exist - carry it all by yourself or throw it all to God and depend on Him fully.
There never existed another better choice than the latter.
Amen. =)
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