God did good work. It’s important for us to understand that work is not merely about labor, but it is about the quality within it.

In our world we have to be careful even in talking about work because our society takes productivity as some super-power, failing to see how it is the path of godliness in our work that matters.

Many miss their way because they do not have the right quality in their work. This is sadly very true in the church. Many run about and shout from this and that housetop, yet they are blind to the lack of quality within themselves, the great need to be sanctified within.

The great task the Lord has set before us is not simply to “work” but to be worthy of that work. To have a true substance within, from His substance, in order to do true good in this world.

This work is not cheap, and we cannot have meaningful work if we do not equally carry out the hidden work within.

We are far too easily deceived here. We trust so much in activity and trying to control others, and have very little sight of the great work of sitting down, being quiet, truly learning of God until we are changed, and continually changing.

Oh, many Christians today profess to have this “change”, when it is evident they know little of how great the work of this change costs one truly given to it. We profess with superstitious lips that “we are changed, we are changed,” and we fail to get quiet and alone with God, and labor with Him to understand the true Spirit of God, and be changed within.

Therefore there is a great amount of Christian work in this world, and yet sadly most of it is rotten and built upon unreality and even cruelty. And yet self deception is so many people’s substitute for faith that they cannot see just how empty and poisonous their efforts for God are. That they poison the world rather than feed it, they are full of pretenses rather than true substance, and their “wisdom” is actually darkness and blindness.

All of this is because they do not sit down and be quiet and learn the true work from God needed. Nor do they think it is even necessary!

To do the work of God means the full work. It is not just some external activity, but it is about doing all that is required for true wisdom, righteousness, and godliness. Not in some idea of these things, but the true nature of them.

Our greatest need in the church is that we would stop “working” in order to develop the true work within. To take years for this, not minutes. To be worthy of the work.

“Therefore, if anyone cleanses himself from what is dishonorable, he will be a vessel for honorable use, set apart as holy, useful to the master of the house, ready for every good work.” (2 Tim 2:21)