Apr 23 • Daily Devotion
[4/23] What If the Work We Build Isn't the Point?
"Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own." — Matthew 6:34
I've been thinking about work lately. Not in the way I used to — not about performance, or output, or what I'm building. I've been thinking about what happens to our sense of self when the work we've been doing starts to disappear underneath us.
Many of us here are in creative fields. Writing, translating, designing, making. And many of us have felt it over the last year or two — the quiet shift. Work drying up. Clients who used to send projects now saying "we tried it with AI first." The sense that something we spent years becoming good at is being reframed as a problem to be optimized away.
It has made me ask a harder question than the usual "how do I adapt?" The question is this: if my work can be replaced, was my worth ever really in it?
Matthew 6 has been meeting me in this. Jesus points to the birds of the air — they don't sow, they don't reap, they don't store up in barns. And He points to the lilies of the field — clothed in more glory than Solomon, without spinning a single thread. Not because their lives are easy, but because their lives are held. They are provided for. They are not defined by their productivity.
And then He says the thing that cuts the deepest: "Are you not much more valuable than they?"
Not "are you not more productive." Not "are you not more skilled." Valuable. Before anything I produce, before anything I build, before any line on my resume — my value was settled.
I don't think this means we stop working. The lilies still grow. The birds still fly out to find food. Work is not the enemy. But work was never supposed to be the foundation. When it becomes the foundation, it collapses the moment it's threatened — and a lot of us are feeling that collapse right now.
What if this strange, unsettling season is actually an invitation? An invitation to let our identity get unhooked from our output, so it can be rehooked to the only thing that was ever going to hold it — being loved by the One who made us. Not for what we can do. Just because we are His.
If you are in this season too — the quiet inbox, the dwindling work, the unnamed fear underneath it — I want to pray with you. That God would provide, yes. That new doors would open, yes. But more than that: that our sense of who we are would come loose from what we make, and come to rest in whose we are.
"Seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you." (Matthew 6:33)
Not "and all these things will make sense." Not "and you will figure out your career." All these things will be added. He knows what we need. Our job today is to seek Him first — and to trust that the rest is not on our shoulders.
Praying for this community tonight. 🙏
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[4/23] What If the Work We Build Isn't the Point?
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