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The great myth of more is that we ought to know more in our own strength, that somehow God should be explainable, understandable—that He should fit into our degree of understanding. Yet there is no understanding of God apart from a personal relationship with His Son. John 14:23 says, “Jesus answered and said to him, ‘If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word; and My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our home with him.’”

It is easy, as a follower of Jesus Christ, to fall into the trap of doing more, as if Christian service is the single key to close relationship with our Creator. But our connection to God is all about Him and not about us. It is about what He has already done: it’s His saving work on the cross and the reality of the empty grave that give us hope for the future.

As a person in full-time ministry for many years, I have watched and even been caught up in the myth that “more is more”—that somehow competing and striving and proving is what gets us ahead and that more people, more conferences, and more services will please God. But the key to having the “full riches of complete understanding” (Colossians 2:2, NIV11) is to be born again by the power of the Holy Spirit.

Walking every day in devotion with the Word of God and in step with the promptings of His Spirit will lead you into grace, peace, and the abundant life of more than you ever asked for, dreamed, or imagined, not to a place of burnout, a frantic pace, and relentless pursuit of more time, more things, and more rest. Knowing Jesus in a personal way will open up a world of endless discovery and opportunity but will never demand of you that which you cannot give.