21 Days to Finding Eternal Purpose in Your Daily WorkSample

“Hustle” has to be one of the most popular mantras in work culture today. Entrepreneurs are told they have to “hustle” to make their businesses succeed. Everyone seems to be working on a “side-hustle” outside of their 9-to-5 job. What does God’s Word have to say about hustle?

On the one hand, Scripture clearly celebrates hard work. In Colossians 1, Paul himself claims to “strenuously contend with all the energy” in his work. Then, a few verses later, he commands us to do the same, saying, “Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart” (Colossians 3:23).

Given the many ways our work matters for eternity, we should “hustle” and work hard. But, in all of our hustle, we must also wrestle with the biblical truth that it is God alone—not us or our hustle—that produces results in our work. Today’s passage and many others make this crystal clear.

As Christ-followers, we are to embrace the tension between trusting and hustling, on the one hand working “with all our hearts” while on the other hand leaving the results of our hard work in God’s hands.

How do we know if we are managing the tension between trust and hustle well? By whether we can rest from our work. It is that subject we will turn to tomorrow.