{"id":8565,"date":"2022-06-11T03:21:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-11T03:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=8565"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:34:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:34:10","slug":"dont-work-for-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=8565","title":{"rendered":"DON&#8217;T WORK FOR GOD"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u00a0If we &#8220;work as if everything depends on us&#8221;, our work becomes drudgery &#8230; when it&#8217;s not stressful.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And stressful when it&#8217;s not drudgery.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At one point when Jesus was hassled by the Jewish leaders for healing an invalid on the Sabbath, he told them all, &#8220;My Father is always at his work to this very day.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;And I too am working.&#8221; (John 5:17)<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We are not called to work <b><i>for <\/i><\/b>God. We are called to work <i><b>alongside <\/b><\/i>God.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">How can you play off God&#8217;s activity if you are running yourself ragged, working &#8220;as if everything depends on you&#8221;?<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If we can get into the mindset of working alongside God, following His lead, it&#8217;s going to feel like a slower pace, but more important stuff will be accomplished.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There&#8217;s so much more joy in it, too.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0If we &#8220;work as if everything depends on us&#8221;, our work becomes drudgery &#8230; when it&#8217;s not stressful. And stressful when it&#8217;s not drudgery. At one point when Jesus was hassled by the Jewish leaders for healing an invalid on the Sabbath, he told them all, &#8220;My Father is always at his work to this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8565"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8566,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8565\/revisions\/8566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}