The world says you aren't good enough. Every. Single. Day. So what do we do?
"We chase after awards to be recognized by our peers, our friends, maybe even our spouse who is also looking for affirmation in all the wrong places. We create stages and lights and award shows and retweet our own success. We write books to prove we are a success and show others how they can be just like us. We even create our own quotes to post on Facebook pages and promote them in hopes of it going viral. We market the content of our lives to win approval. We have become experts at trumpeting our own glory while saying with our lips, "So humbled to win this award." Yet, our hearts are brimming with selfish pride. "
But, we don't stop there. "We offer up our unique identity at the price of becoming like everyone else. We chase affirmation like a drug. We conform to a way of life prescribed to us like a pill we don't want, but we believe we must take to be a “success.” We are willing to swallow it whole at the price of family, health, life, friendships and our eternal soul. We leave our [friends and family] screaming for our attention, so we can book another meeting and post another update to people who are consumed with their own issues."
So what now, what can we do about this issue of identity? What do we do every single day when the world knocks and calls, tweets and posts, or DMs us saying "You aren't good enough!
First, realize that it is a lie. We aren't defined by the world; Twitter, Facebook, Google, Instagram, Snapchat, Youtube, other social media platforms, the world news, or even the person next to you. It's time we stop lookingand measuring our worth from worth-less things and start getting our self worth and "self-esteem from something outside ourselves." It's time to hear and believe and live by "what our heavenly Father has to say" about who we are.
