{"id":3351,"date":"2022-05-21T09:29:53","date_gmt":"2022-05-21T16:29:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orthodoxnet.com\/blog\/?p=3351"},"modified":"2024-10-21T17:16:48","modified_gmt":"2024-10-22T00:16:48","slug":"do-the-best-that-you-can-today-leave-the-rest-to-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orthodoxnet.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/do-the-best-that-you-can-today-leave-the-rest-to-god\/","title":{"rendered":"Do the Best That You Can Today, Leave the Rest to God"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/orthodoxnet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Do_Best_You-Can_Leave_Rest_God_01_900x564.jpg\" alt=\"Do the Best That You Can Today, Leave the Rest to God\" width=\"900\" height=\"564\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3354\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orthodoxnet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Do_Best_You-Can_Leave_Rest_God_01_900x564.jpg 900w, https:\/\/orthodoxnet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Do_Best_You-Can_Leave_Rest_God_01_900x564-300x188.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orthodoxnet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Do_Best_You-Can_Leave_Rest_God_01_900x564-768x481.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/>by Chris Banescu &#8211;<br \/>\nDo the best that you can today, where you are, in whatever capacity you&#8217;re able. Leave the rest to God. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>This was inspired by wisdom that C.S. Lewis shared in his &#8220;Learning in Wartime&#8221; sermon which he preached in the Church of St. Mary the Virgin, in Oxford, in the autumn of 1939. This essay was later included in the <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3PFA1vL\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Weight of Glory<\/em><\/a> book that includes other addresses by Lewis.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A more Christian attitude, which can be attained at any age in that of leaving futurity in God&#8217;s hands. We may as well, for God will certainly retain it whether we leave it to Him or not. Never, in peace or war, commit your virtue or your happiness to the future.<\/p>\n<p>Happy work is best done by the man who takes his long-term plans somewhat lightly and woks from moment to moment &#8216;as to the Lord.&#8217; It is only our daily bread that we are encourage to ask for. The present is the only time in which any duty can be done or any grace received.&#8221; ~ C.S. Lewis<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><em>(Photo credit Pixabay)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Chris Banescu &#8211; Do the best that you can today, where you are, in whatever capacity you&#8217;re able. Leave the rest to God.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christianity","category-wisdom"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxnet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxnet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxnet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxnet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxnet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxnet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3351\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxnet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxnet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxnet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}