Our work matters today because it is a means of glorifying God and loving our neighbors as ourselves (see Matthew 22:39). But our work also matters for eternity because God can use it to build his kingdom. And because God alone will finish that work and ultimately bring heaven to earth, we can embrace this freeing truth today: God doesn’t need you or me to finish our to-do lists. If the things on our to-do lists are on God’s to-do list, he will complete them with or without us.
