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Work With All Your Heart

December 9, 2020

I love this verse in Colossians 3:23-24:

Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men, knowing that from the Lord you will receive the inheritance as your reward. You are serving the Lord Christ.

Whatever work you have, work with all your heart. Work can become our idols and that’s often the pitfall in the pursuit of excelling in whatever work we have.

However, the Apostle Paul isn’t talking simply about work as a means to money, fame, status, or power. He is talking about it as a means to something different.

Work gives glory to God when it is shown that we are doing it for the Lord, and not for men. This means that we see our work as worship to Him.

Worship in work would then mean that the character we show in work and the quality we aim to produce shows that the Spirit is working in us. In this way, what motivates us is not the benefits that come with doing excellent work but what has been promised to us.

We are often accustomed to a system where if we work harder, produce more, and attain higher, we will be rewards by better compensation and rewards at work. The verse confirms that this isn’t the case for motivation, rather, it’s focusing on the SURE inheritance that we are about to receive.

The words “you will receive” here isn’t conditional. It’s stating a fact that will happen… and that should be enough of a motivating factor for those who work.

Why? Because that assurance comes with the realization that every sweat, blood, and tear is devoted towards our God, not towards management or our bosses. With that, yes, it is enough.

It is enough because God sees every effort we put. He sees every injustice we have endured. He sees every hurt caused by those who do not believe what we believe.

It is enough… it is MORE than enough.

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The majority of us grew up in a society where we a The majority of us grew up in a society where we are programmed to avoid failure as much as possible.

It’s embedded in our culture: our family, our neighborhood, mass media, schooling system, work environment and basically everywhere you go.

The harshest truth to this is not the insults that come, it’s the branding that goes along with it; if you fail, you’re branded as a failure. This is absolutely ridiculous.

Next year ends my 1st decade in earning online (I started as a freelancer during my college years and founded Telic on the 3rd year of college). The biggest lesson from that journey is the ridiculous amount of failed experiments that needed to be had BEFORE there is an even slight chance of success.

Ask any of the first hires (who are still partner-employees) and they would easily say that for every successful product/department/expansion, there are 2 – 10 failed experiments in the forms of pivots, micro product announcements, mini teams and so many other catastrophes.

In fact, we fail every day. There’s always a problem, an issue, a hiccup. But those failures, whether minor or major, pave the way for the next reiteration.

Since this is true in every realized potential, shouldn’t we rejoice after taking the leap yet falling short?

If this is true, shouldn’t we rethink how we react knowing that each failure gets us closer to a desired result?

If this is true, shouldn’t we embrace failure as a tool to hone ourselves and the people around us (especially if we lead)? If this is true, shouldn’t we structure our families and loved ones to withstand the failures and maneuver our ways into a more desirable positions?

The goal ISN’T not to fail, the goal is to fail as many times possible but just enough not to be out of the game.

As long as you’re playing, you still have a chance to win.

So I beg you: please fail… because you need to.

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