Words of Grace for Those Not Able to Do it All

Kevin DeYoung posted a treatise on his blog that captures important reminders of God's grace for us who feel overwhelmed by competing demands between many good options for our time and energy.

Here are some highlights:

Again, I know what you are going to say: but we do need to love, serve, and sacrifice. Absolutely, we do. But here’s what else we need to realize:

1) We all have different callings.
2) The church, not the individual Christian, is God’s body in the world.
3) Even Jesus left good work undone some days.
4) God is the one who does the work, builds his kingdom, renews his world.
5) Greater is he that is in me that he that is in the world.

The gospel of Christ crucified for sinners is of first importance after all. So don’t forget: God loves you. God forgives you. God redeems you. God keeps you. God was here before you and will be here long after you. The truth, the world, the church, the lost, the poor, the children are not dependent upon you.

and (emphasis mine)

I promise you, some of the best people in your churches are getting tired. They don’t need another rah-rah pep talk. They don’t need to hear more statistics and more stories Sunday after Sunday about how bad everything is in the world. They need to hear about Christ’s death and resurrection. They need to hear how we are justified by faith apart from works of the law. They need to hear the old, old story once more. Because the secret of the gospel is that we actually do more when we hear less about all we need to do for God and hear more about all that God has already done for us.