Have you ever asked the question: “Why is it nothing I do is ever good enough?” I know I have. And it’s a good enough question…I guess. There are times our actions are measured by a variety of standards: driving tests, work appraisals, school exams, etc. But I believe the real question we need to ask is “Who am I?” It’s amazing how many people cannot answer that question. Can you?
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When we focus our lives on what we do we are generally working at earning our value. We’re on really thin ice when we do that. We are trying to please people rather than grow closer to God. We can’t be everything to everyone so we frequently fail the people we care about. Isaiah 64:6 says “We have all become like one who is unclean, and all our righteous deeds are like a polluted garment. We all fade like a leaf, and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.” So…we can’t be good enough for God either.
In the Wednesday May 11, 2011 New Life Daily Devotional Dr. Steven Arterburn provides the following list that compares doing and being:
• Doing creates and perpetuates the myth that we’re in control; being acknowledges that God’s in control.
• Doing commits us to safety; being acknowledges that the Christian life is one of faith—and that means one of risk.
• Doing engenders spiritual pride; being produces humility.
• Doing is about correcting behavioral patterns; being is about spiritual renewal through knowing God.
• Doing is about reactionary response; being is about thoughtfully, prayerfully, and intentionally bringing what the Bible teaches to bear upon every aspect of life.
So what will it be for you? Do you want to live your life trying to be good enough? Or are you ready to find out who you really are? I encourage you to look at the comforting things the Bible says about who you are when you have committed your life to Jesus.
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Now…let me ask you again: Who are you?