Four words stopped me in the middle of an ordinary week and wouldn’t let go. Not “what am I doing” as in the schedule — I know the schedule, you know yours too. It’s the question underneath it: what am I doing it for?

This episode isn’t me on a hill talking down to anybody. This week the word of God found me out, and what follows is less lecture, more surgery — with me on the table first. Built around “The Perfect Love of Jesus” and centered on Matthew 3:17, where the Father calls Jesus “beloved” and “well pleased” before he’d done a single day of public ministry — we dig into the difference between performing for God’s love and simply overflowing from it. Because two people can do the exact same thing for entirely different reasons, and busyness will never tell you which one you are.

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