Arise and work, do the thing that I have put before you. Don’t spend time figuring out how it all fits together. Don’t feel the pressure to think through all the possibilities. And most importantly, don’t think that I will give you any unimportant tasks, no matter how mundane they may seem at the time.
Working to get what we already have
The main point is that I don’t have to strive to achieve holiness; it is something that has already been granted to me. I don’t have to work to get holiness; I already have it by being in Christ. I had been working to get something that I already have.
Every good endeavor
“If the God of the Bible exists, and there is a True Reality beneath and behind this one, and this life is not the only life, then every good endeavor, even the simplest ones, pursued in response to God’s calling, can matter forever. That is what the Christian faith promises.” Tim Keller in Every Good […]
A much needed rest
Jesus’ yoke is easy and the burden light. If the burden is not light, if service is difficult, then I need to consider that the yoke is not Jesus’ yoke.
