When Diligence Is Mistaken for Divine Approval
by Tunde Ajiteru
It is easy to confuse the momentum of our labour with the blessing of God upon it. Diligence looks like fruit. It has a rhythm and a weight and a public shape. Yet Scripture is patient with us on this point, and gently distinguishes between the work of our hands and the approval of the Father.
There are seasons where the truest obedience is not another completed task but a quiet return to the presence of the One who called us. The workman is not first known by his output. He is first known by the One he loves.
So the invitation is not to work less, but to work from a settled place. To let our diligence rise out of communion, and not out of the fear that God will love us more if we produce more.
It is a slow lesson. It is also a freeing one.