Is your hard work leaving you exhausted? Priscilla Shirer has an answer for you.
“God graciously gives the children of Israel all this mana, then He says, ‘On the seventh day, you’re not going to gather. If you do go out there, you’re going to be expending so much time, effort, energy; it’s going to be exhausting, and you’re still going to come up empty-handed,’” she said in a recent episode of her podcast, referring to the story in Exodus.
Shirer explained, “To me, that is one of the markers when I’ve stepped into God’s margin. When I’m doing, doing, doing, and really, the only fruit I’m getting out of it is a feeling of exhaustion. ‘Cause we would apply this even to working and being productive and diligent. We can’t say, ‘God, do the work for me.’ No, He’s given you gifts and talents, and you have to be disciplined enough to sit down and do the work He’s given your hands to do.”
“Here is the Lord giving me the opportunity to gather mana, and I see fruit of it. The fruit of it means….that what I’m doing matters. I feel purpose,” she concluded.
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Shirer often shares her thoughts on faith and how we can truly thrive in our relationship with God. In another episode of her podcast, she explained the difference between talents and spiritual gifts.
“The spiritual gift is something the Holy Spirit is the source of, which you also need to exercise and practice these spiritual gifts,” she said, adding, “The purpose of this is not just to be good at it. The purpose of this, the whole source of it, the reason why the Holy Spirit has me gifted in this area is to edify somebody else. To build up, to encourage, to instill faith and to draw people to Jesus.”
In a recent essay for Relevant Magazine, Shirer shared her thoughts on what — and how much — we ask from God.
“When we have a concern, when something is causing us apprehension or uneasiness, we should never shy away from bringing it to our heavenly Father just because we feel He doesn’t have time for something so minor,” she wrote. “He has invited us to do that. And His desire for a relationship with us is, at least in part, why I think He’s done it.”
Shirer’s recent words are a reminder to not waste time and energy on work that is not ours to do.
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