Diligence

Romans 6:11a

"not lagging in diligence"

In the context of this phrase, I don't see any clear indication for when or where we are supposed to be diligent. I take that to mean that diligence is supposed to characterize everything we do. Whether it's quiet time, serving, going to work, cleaning the house, writing a book...whatever it is that is before us, we should do it with diligence for the glory of God.

It's easy to think that diligence is synonymous with doing more and more and achieving bigger and better. However, that only leads to burnout, which is not a very diligent use of our time and resources. No, sometimes diligence is doing less to achieve more...like only reading 4 words of scripture so I can finally get back to blogging about what God is teaching me.