Resting While You Work
September 18th, 2008 Categories: Christian Business Blog
As Christian business people, we sometimes view the terms “rest” and “work” as contradictory in nature. I believe this mindset comes as a result of a fundamental misunderstanding of the concept of rest. Rest is not the absence of work, but rather the presence of Him who sets you forth to labor.
9) So there remains a Sabbath rest for the people of God.
10) For the one who has entered His rest has himself also rested from his works, as God did from His.
11) Therefore let us be diligent to enter that rest, so that no one will fall, through following the same example of disobedience. (Hebrews 4: 9-12)
The King James version actually exhorts us to labor to enter that rest, which is an amazing and seemingly contradictory statement. Work hard to not work. Put in effort to be effortless.
What we’re actually being encouraged to do is abandon our striving, approval-seeking laborious behavior and operate our Christian businesses from the perspective that we are loved, accepted, and highly regarded by God despite the success or stature of our business. That revelation doesn’t make me want to do nothing; it makes me want to do everything. The difference is that I’m not performing in order to earn His approval or provide for my own substinence, but rather to honor Him who equipped me for business in the first place.
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