What God asks of us is prodigal action—to work to love your city, to make beautiful things, and to care for the welfare of your neighbors, even if there are more “efficient” means available. Waiting on God’s work of grace, which defies our expectations as it did Jonah’s, appears to be foolish. What a waste of time and energy! And yet it is precisely this resting in God’s work, not our own, that challenges the spirit of autonomy.
