Let devotional

#43 Working Hard at the Wrong Things

Posted: Wednesday, September 2nd, 2020
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LET. Wielded by the Holy Spirit, this tiny word had a huge impact on Martha’s life, and the adventure can be yours, too, if you just LET God be GOD.

Devotional

Hebrews 4:11 ESV
Therefore let us strive to enter the rest.

Yesterday I wrote this: “Isn’t that a contradiction? Do the work to enter the rest?“ 

There is a work to do as God’s child. We think the work is doing and giving and building and going and saying and knowing… But Jesus said to the crowd following Him,

Do not labor for the food that perishes, but for the food that endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to you…
John 6:27 NKJV

One of the first discoveries made when you truly follow Jesus is that you are working hard at all the wrong things. He shocks us with the adjustment to His basic idea about work. This spiritual work is entirely foreign to our busy humanity as well as to our basic laziness.

Other Devotionals in Let Series

#70 The Prize Worth Every Effort #69 The Precious Course Set Before Us #68 The Irresistible Power of Weakness #67 LET Christ Have It All #66 The Diabolical that Deftly and Cleverly Clings #65 To Walk in the Light of God #64 Be Free of Weights and Sins #62 The Stone on My Back #61 How Often Do We Just Listen to Jesus? #60 Never Hurried, Never Worried #59 Let Us Also Lay Aside Every Weight #58 The Cloud of Witnesses Watching #57 Strong Faith through Utter Weakness #56 Out of Frailty and Weakness #55 Faith and Only Faith Is What We Need #54 The Great Champions of Faith #53 The Work that Produces Faith and Pleases God #52 Faith Begins with Need #51 The Real Work #50 What Is the Work of God? #49 A New Work of Focus on God #48 The Practical God We Need to Know #47 An Eternal, Indefatigable Life #46 Living Bread that Gives Life #45 Bread of Life for the Hungry #44 Heaven's Bread of Life
#43 Working Hard at the Wrong Things (Currently Viewing)
#42 Strive to Enter the Rest #41 Christ is Able to Keep You #40 What Is the Rest of God? #39 LET Us Fear? #38 The Mysterious LET #37 Let God Eliminate #36 Let and the First Commandment #35 Power, Holiness and Character #34 Christ Can Let Be and Let God #33 God's Perfect Order #32 An Impossible Call #31 The Father's Sovereign LET #30 The Let of Gethsemane #29 Jesus LET Abuse Wrack Him #28 Let Go and Lower Yourself #27 Let God and Receive the Outlandish #26 Until We Let Him Rule #25 When Jesus says, 'Let Us Go' #24 God Binds and God Lets Go #23 LET, Then Rejoice and Be Glad #22 God's Strange 'Let It Be' #21 Allowed to Remain and Wreck #20 Hinder Not #19 Our Greatest Challenge #18 Faith, Active and Solid #17 We Exist in Christ #16 "Let there be..." #15 Our Eyes are On You #14 I Am the Lord and There Is No Other #13 To Know He Is God #12 One High and Holy Purpose #11 The Peace of Christ #10 Allow the Riches of Christ to Rise #9 He Is, He Lives, He Gave #8 Let God Take Over #7 Let Your Light Shine #6 Let the Lifeguard Save #5 Let God Give and Be and Do #4 A Humble Bow to God #3 Let God BE God #2 Let God, Let Go, and Let Be #1 Small Word, Mighty Meaning