our work. it’s god’s. jesus said that he’d come to do the work of the father, the implication being that it was not his own work. there’s great comfort in that truth because if it’s not our work, then it’s not our responsibility to make it succeed. it’s god’s.
when we plant a seed, we’re not responsible to make it grow. we are responsible to water and weed the plant as it grows, but we can’t make the seed or the plant grow; only god can do that. in the same way, we can’t do anything other than our best with what we’re called to do and then we simply have 