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I'm thinking today of Ecclesiastes 4 .6. One

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hand full of rest is better than two fists full

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of labor and striving after wind. It's okay.

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Striving to change the world without God's purpose

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is futile. What if we succeeded? What eternal

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good would there be? What good can we do in our

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effort? Of course, to do evil is the wrong road,

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but is he who is striving ever really doing good?

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Would we be better off resting in the Lord and

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allowing him to work through us? Can we do this

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without yielding to laziness and becoming unproductive?

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I don't yearn for fame. I don't think any of

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us do. And those of us who do probably aren't

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listening to this message. We don't even know

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what's best for us every single day. You know.

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Lord, help us do the right things daily. Please

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give us this day our daily bread. I think I've

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heard that somewhere before. Is there anything

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better? Resting in God and seeing the outcomes

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that God provides seems like the only road that

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works. But does rest equal a lack of labor? No.

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It equals being committed to the labor of love.

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Does labor equal striving? No. It means trusting

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God and doing what God would have you to do and

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allowing him to provide the increase. We've got

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this. I know that all that's accomplished by

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our flawed nature fails and falls away, but that

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which God does lasts forever.