Our culture is all about hustle. We want to get results and better our lives through hard work. This can be helpful to some extent, but unhelpful when we begin to believe that God cares more about what we do rather than the person we are becoming. It is totally possible to lead, teach, stack chairs, and do a lot of work for God, but have a deep disconnection to our inner lives. But the good news is that God does the same work through us and in us. Jesus wants us to abide in him (John 15) and produce good fruit. This means that our doing for God should not exceed our being with God. What might it mean for us to pay attention to the inner work as much as our outer world?
Our culture is all about hustle. We want to get results and better our lives through hard work. This can be helpful to some extent, but unhelpful when we begin to believe that God cares more about what we do rather than the person we are becoming. It is totally possible to lead, teach, stack chairs, and do a lot of work for God, but have a deep disconnection to our inner lives. But the good news is that God does the same work through us and in us. Jesus wants us to abide in him (John 15) and produce good fruit. This means that our doing for God should not exceed our being with God. What might it mean for us to pay attention to the inner work as much as our outer world?