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You said you’d rather live in the woods than deal with workplace competition. I understand why it feels that way, because most of what passes for “competition” today isn’t lawful striving at all. It’s the very thing the Scriptures warn about.
I’ve worked in places where the real problem wasn’t the work, but the talebearing and fictional narratives that Proverbs describes:
“The words of a talebearer are as wounds” (Proverbs 26:22).
Coworkers whispered stories that had no truth in them, and those stories shaped the whole environment.
I’ve seen dissembling lips, too — people who smiled while undermining me.
Proverbs says:
“He that hateth dissembleth with his lips… When he speaketh fair, believe him not.” (Proverbs 26:24–25)
I’ve been told “you’re a good worker” while being pushed past what my health could sustain. That’s exactly what Scripture calls flattery used for harm:
“A flattering mouth worketh ruin.” (Proverbs 26:28)
And when I reported wrongdoing in another job, I was removed for it — which is what the Bible calls despising a neighbour:
“He that despiseth his neighbour sinneth.” (Proverbs 14:21)
Scripture also says a man who mistreats the person in front of him cannot claim to love God:
“He that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen?” (1 John 4:20)
That’s the real issue.
Not competition — unlawful competition.
Not striving — striving through deceit, flattery, retaliation, and concealed hatred.
But here’s what I learned, and this is why I didn’t run away from work:
When I came to West Michigan Works!, before I got my current job, the local government made it plain that if I was an able‑bodied person, I ought to get a job. And when I read Romans 13 and 1 Peter 2, I took them seriously. I submitted to the government, got honest work, and learned how to compete lawfully — not by playing along with lying vanities, but by rejecting them.
Lawful competition, in the Scriptural sense, is contending in truth, refusing deceit, refusing to harm a neighbour, and proving love for God by upright treatment of the person in front of you.
That’s what helped me discern my past employment, make changes for the better, and stay grounded in real work instead of running away from it.