Too Good For Your Job
I see something surfacing in people in my generation and GenZ, and looked back upon with frustration by the Xers and Boomers.
The Christian world is hyped up on living your dream, pursuing passion, and Christian self-optimization. We forget that competency, practice, and years in the dark are what often make people good…Greatness wealth, status, fame (positive or negative depending on the human that has it) is still a massive outlier.
We have too often thought we are too good for the job or life we have. We lack contentment with the present and the past, because we were “made for so much more”. While this may be true, it is highly likely you’re not too competent for your job. If you were, it’s likely you’d know.
Enter the tortured genius. So many good ideas, far too little grasp on reality. Honesty with oneself is the real genius. Most of us don’t have it. The truth is your market, church, or business is already telling you how good you are. But mom said you were special. (I’m the 4th of four children so…I really am special)
The pinnacle of success we see on social media is often laden with a story we would not accept for ourselves. Pain, heartache, relationship loss, constant work in the dark. All things have a cost. Sitting and thinking we are too good for the work we have before us is unhelpful and harmful. Aiming high IS good. Although, it always has a cost; and it’s often counted along the way, without your permission or you setting the price. It just is, the cost. And as long as we don’t know what that is, the price, we actually aren’t too good. We haven’t paid yet.
You are indeed valuable, unique, and laden with dormant ability. But…we all require honesty. You are where you are now because of you. There’s freedom in that, more than most will accept.
The truth is the upward climb of following Christ is downward…toward humility, surrender,mortification of the flesh, true purpose, surrendered discipleship, whatever the outcome may be. Gods desire is to make you like His Son. To be GOOD is what he is after in you.
Greatness? That will change its shape the nearer you are to Him
