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I have just returned from a trip to Honduras, where we were vetting a potential future project to help locals create micro-businesses.  These trips present a cadre of potential conflicts.  First, we have the friction created by my obedience to God\u2019s call.  It conflicts because I am responding to what I believe to be God\u2019s vision for my life, but I am also judging my effectiveness; how much good am I doing.  The second has to do with what we are teaching.  We are teaching people to use Godly principles to create for-profit businesses.  Most of us see the potential conflict in that.  We must balance living in a performance-based world with grace-based salvation.  It is tough to keep the two separate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Genesis 2:15<\/strong>, \u201cThe Lord God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to work it and keep it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Christ modeled our relationships here on earth after our relationship with Himself.  He wants us to learn from Him and grow closer to Him through involvement with Him. But, we are to honor the originator of all things in the process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ephesians 2:19<\/strong>, \u201cConsequently, you are no longer foreigners and strangers, but fellow citizens with God\u2019s people and also members of his household.  \u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n

TRANSACTIONAL FAITH<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

In a performance-based world, we become obsessed with goal orientation.  We, through constant reinforcement, fixate on achievement.  Our parents remind us that results do matter.  So when we take on a task, we want to know why.  Is it the best use of our time?  Is it within our calling, aptitude, and gifts?  We somehow can\u2019t take our hands off the wheel; if we can\u2019t drive, we want to navigate; even when we don\u2019t know the destination.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Colossians 3: 23-24<\/strong>, \u201cWhatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for human masters, since you know that you will receive an inheritance from the Lord as a reward.  It is the Lord Christ you are serving.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The key to this statement is \u201cas working for the Lord.\u201d God was very clear from the beginning that we needed to be active while living the life He has created for us.  That activity must have a purpose, and with it comes achievement.  Our part is to be obedient in doing the task before us, not the outcome.  The outcome is the exclusive domain of God, not us.  Whatever God puts before us is part of His plan for our lives.  We must do it with peace and joy.  God does not get His highest pleasure from our achievements; He gets it from our obedience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ephesians 3: 12-13<\/strong>, \u201cI know that there is nothing better for people than to be happy and to do good while they live.  That each of them may eat and drink and find satisfaction in all their toil\u2014this is the gift of God.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In The Purpose Driven Life, Rick Warren writes, \u201cWork becomes worship when you dedicate it to God and perform it with an awareness of his presence.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The implication here is not that we get satisfaction from what we accumulate or accomplish but from the tasks that God puts before us because it is a gift from God.  Being the person God has made you be isn\u2019t about creating something; it is about discovering something.  The pursuit is progressed not by the honors that we accumulate but by our obedience to God\u2019s plan for us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

BUT PERFORMANCE COUNTS<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Work is one of the ways we demonstrate God to non-believers.  But, if non-believers cannot trust us with the worldly endeavors one can see, how can we be trusted with spiritual works that require faith?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1 Peter 2:12<\/strong>, \u201cKeep your conduct among the Gentiles honorable, so that when they speak against you as evildoers, they may see your good deeds and glorify God on the day of visitation.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, we endeavor to meet a high level of performance not to please God but to glorify God to non-believers.  We are held responsible for our results; we need to take that seriously.  God created us to work; setting and meeting goals is part of the responsibility.  From a worldly perspective, this responsibility produces the most anxiety in our lives.  It not only affects the way we perceive the nature of our work, but it also affects other aspects of our worldly existence.  It affects our self-perception and self-image and our drive to have better material goods and living standards.  One of our obligations as Christians is to be a good team member, employer, parent, child, and spouse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2 Thessalonians 3:12<\/strong> \u201csuch people we command and urge in the Lord Jesus Christ to settle down and earn the bread they eat.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

BUT NOT TO GOD<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Ephesians 2: 8-9<\/strong>, \u201cFor it is by grace you have been saved, through faith\u2014and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God\u2014 not by works, so that no one can boast.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For most of us, it is hard to turn that switch off.  Somehow, we still try to do good works as if they are the keys to salvation; they aren\u2019t.  That is not to say that we should not strive to do good works; it is just that those good works will not get us to heaven.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Matthew 7:16-20<\/strong>, \u201d By their fruit, you will recognize them.  Do people pick grapes from thornbushes or figs from thistles?  Likewise, every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit.  A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, and a bad tree cannot bear good fruit.  Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.  Thus, by their fruit, you will recognize them.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is when we start to believe we can be good enough, fruitful enough, holy enough that we lose sight of the beautiful gift of God; eternal life with Him in heaven through grace.  The balance we need to strike is to understand that while the world requires performance as a means of measuring worth, God does not.  Spiritual performance is a by-product of grace, not a goal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Philippians 4:19<\/strong>, \u201cAnd my God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We need to get back to helping our Father with His business.  We are to be obedient to His will.  We cannot control the outcome or the timing; we can only enjoy working in His presence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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