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I work in finance. Besides having the gifts, opportunity, and desire to do this work, I also feel this is an area God has called me to work in. I really want to be excellent in it. But sometimes—OK, often—it’s hard to lay it down to focus on other priorities, like my family, my church, or my health. How do I know the difference between being diligent at work and making work an idol?
You’re right to be diligent in your work. Whatever we do, Scripture tells us to work at it with all our heart, as if working for the Lord (Col. 3:23–24).
But we can easily drift from serving God with our work as worship to serving our work as the god we worship.
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