Do You Place Your Value Only in "Work"?
You Don't Have To Be Perfect Podcast with Vanessa Luu
English - May 03, 2022 19:53 - 10 minutes - 9.48 MBChristianity Religion & Spirituality Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
God has not called me only to work for His kingdom., but to peace, rest, refreshment, and delight in Him.
A somewhat new realization on my journey. I always think that only my work counts in the eyes of God.
Do you feel like that too?
Ephesians 2:10 tells us, “For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand so that we would walk in them.” So in my mind, that means getting to work so that I can honor God and fulfill my purpose!
Recently, the Holy Spirit has been showing me that His call to rest, stillness, and beauty is just as important as the work He’s called me to do.
I’ve been practicing rest, stillness, and embracing God’s beauty for quite a while now, but I didn’t count it in the way I count work.
While I know everything God calls us to is good I didn’t realize that I was placing different values on them.
God has not called us only to work for His kingdom. He calls us to delight in Him. I’m so tough on myself that I think delighting in the Lord is a nice gift that I shouldn’t expect. But it’s more than that.
“Delight yourself in the LORD;
And He will give you the desires of your heart. Commit your way to the LORD,
Trust also in Him, and He will do it.” -Psalms 37:4-5
Our delight in the Lord goes both ways.
“The steps of a man are established by the LORD, And He delights in his way.” -Psalms 37:23
“I delight greatly in the LORD;
my soul rejoices in my God.
For he has clothed me with garments of salvation and arrayed me in a robe of his righteousness, as a bridegroom adorns his head like a priest, and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.” -Isaiah 61:10
The meaning of delight in all of these verses is either jubilant exhortation over God or good pleasure. Either way, you slice it, delight is a desirable experience.
I know it will take some time to correct my habit of placing more value on work than on delighting in God and His word, but the Spirit is leading me, and I will follow.
Rest, pleasure, stillness, and works, are all gifts from God, and they are all found in Him. They all matter to God, and God gave them to all of us.
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Other Resources:
You Don't Have To Be Perfect by Vanessa Luu
Truth and Tools Workbook by Vanessa Luu
The Relevant Old Testament by Vanessa Luu
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