Augustine puts it really well when he distinguishes between Ute and Frui. To love something is to make it your passion. That's just the object of your passion. And you become like the thing you love. These are my gods. We become like the gods we worship. Then there is things we use. In our curved inness, since we're fallen, we're curved in turned in on ourselves instead of looking up to God in faith and out to our neighbors in love. If I was made for him, I have no rest until I rest in him. The moment that it doesn't fulfill my needs, if that's my wife, my kids, my employer, my
Is there a distinctly Christian way to go about our day jobs? In this episode of White Horse Inn, Michael Horton, Justin Holcomb, Bob Hiller, and Walter Strickland consider what makes our work valuable. They challenge the human tendency to search for ultimate significance and satisfaction in our work, pointing listeners to God’s design for believers to live out their vocations under God’s pleasure, in the power of the Spirit, and within the rhythms of work and rest that he provides.