Quiet Faithfulness in an Ordinary Week

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1 Thessalonians 4:11

Paul's ambition for the Thessalonians is strikingly small: a quiet life, honest work, minded business. It reads like an anticlimax until you try to live it for a year.

Faithfulness is cumulative

Character is not built in decisions but in repetitions. The same is true of drift; nobody wanders far in a day.

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Ordinary work as worship

Colossians 3:23 collapses the distance between vocation and devotion. The work does not need to be religious to be offered.

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