Good morning, good morning, good morning.

Good morning, everyone, and welcome to another mornings with the Masters,

where we devote ourselves to the Lord daily with you.

Today, we are picking up in our U version Bible plan.

We are on day three of trust hustle and

rest and so if you missed the last two days make sure to go back and listen catch up super

encouraging but let's just dive in and be encouraged today is all about hustle and I'm

curious to see what it says and be encouraged by it. Let's jump in.

Over the past couple of days, we've been exploring the tension we Christians must embrace

in our work between trusting in God and hustling to make things happen in our chosen work.

As we saw yesterday, Solomon lays out a sequence to guide our thinking on

this topic, beginning with committing our work to the Lord. In verse 9 of the same chapter,

Solomon urges us to hustle, saying, in their hearts, humans plan their course, but the Lord establishes their steps.

Yes, God has called us to trust him, but he also graciously has given us minds to plan and execute.

Once we have committed our work to the Lord, we are called to hustle, to work with all our heart as working for the Lord.

Colossians 323.

Too often, I'm afraid that we Christians focus too much on either trusting or hustling.

Some Christians use waiting on the Lord as a license for unbiblical laziness,

while others hustle so hard that they are unhealthy physically, spiritually, and emotionally.

The beauty of Proverbs 169 is that it clearly blesses embracing the tension between these two truths.

Yes, we must recognize that the Lord establishes our steps, but it is also right and good for

us to plan our own course, to design, to build, to wireframe, develop, paint, innovate,

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