When things get crazy do your work and trust God

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The most important message I picked up from today’s readings overall is when things get crazy do your work and trust God.

My primary takeaway from each of the passages was this:

• Exodus 5, 6 – Doing the work God gives us is rarely easy and often fraught. It is easy to second guess ourselves and question whether it really is God’s work. Remember your initial call and do it anyway, without wavering.
• Matthew 28 – God’s ways are strange and we cannot understand them. Still, he is with us always.
• Psalms 28 – When I am surrounded by evil-doers if I cry out, God hears me, and he rescues me.
• Proverbs 28 – Work your “land,” trust in God, and prosper. When all around you is going crazy and there’s nothing you can do about it, do your work anyway and trust in God to bless both you and your work.

[NOTE: I actually wrote this on January 29 of 2020, so it’s not really tomorrow, I’m not sick today, and I’m actually not feeling ambivalent about my purpose. However, this is so emblematic of why reading the Bible every day, year after year, provides us with timeless insight and advice for our daily lives. As I read this today–Sunday, January 28, 2024–it spoke to me perfectly about where I am in my life and what I am doing. It will likely speak to me next year, too; and the year after that; and the year after that.]

Today’s takeaway from Exodus was particularly apt for me this week. I have been sick and fell behind in these blog posts. I started to wonder if I am really supposed to be doing this; if it really is a calling, or whether I just made it one in my own mind. I felt that if it were really a calling it would be all smooth sailing (as it seemed in the beginning). Although I’ve been doing the reading and writing my takeaways every day on the appropriate day, I haven’t been able to post them here in my blog in a timely fashion, and I was starting to feel I would never catch up. Then I started to feel discouraged. Then I started to wonder if I should continue.

Then I read today’s passage in Exodus. Although the post date on this blog entry will say January 28th, I’m actually posting it on the 29th. I’m posting backward from the 29th to the last date I was current (the 20th) because I have to be caught up at some point if I’m going to keep doing this. It finally occurred to me that I don’t have to do this extended commentary section every day! If the point is to read the Bible every day then writing about it is of no consequence. My commitment should be to the quick takeaways. What’s ironic is that as soon as I realized I don’t have to write the extended commentary, well….here I am writing the extended commentary. It just flowed out of me because this was part of the lesson for me today.

One of the things I love about reading the Bible every day is that every time I go through it there is something new in it for me to learn about myself and about God. The Word of God never changes; God never changes, but I do change as I learn the lessons God intends for me to learn. That results in me seeing new things that I’ve never seen before in the readings, which means it’s like reading a different book every time I go through it.

The other neat thing about that is that you will see something different in it than I do, and you will see something different in it every time you read through it, too.

God is infinite and eternal. This is just one of the many ways that we experience this.

That’s what I got out of it. What did you get out of the readings today?

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This post is part of the series, “Read the Bible in a Year.”

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