Overloaded Circuit
Historical AccountAnalogy★★★★★You know, I was reading in the news not long ago, many of us here in Northern California remember last year there was a terrible fire in Oakland and 36 people perished in that fire in the warehouse in Oakland. The authorities later determined that it was probably due to what they called an overloaded circuit. They had too many things plugged into a breaker that was only designed to handle so many amps. And because they did this, some wires heated up, they shorted out, they caught on fire, the fire spread, there was only 1 exit downstairs.
Most people were trapped upstairs and died from the smoke inhalation and a lot of death and damage was caused by an overloaded circuit. When you spend all your time worrying about things for tomorrow and the week after and the month after that and you just pile 1 on top of the other, you overload your truck, you blow out the tires, you overload your circuits and it fries.
And God didn’t design this this way.
Batchelor, Doug, “02 Worrying About Stuff” (AudioVerse teaching 29686).
The point
The tragic Oakland warehouse fire, caused by an overloaded electrical circuit, is used as an analogy for how excessive worry about future problems can overload a person's mental and spiritual capacity, leading to burnout and an inability to cope.