So we're listening to music while cleaning the kitchen when my daughter happens to turn up the volume and one line of one verse bounces through the air waves and into my ear with a highlighted message. "When I'm home alone at night that is when I hear the line, 'You'll never be enough'." I hate that voice. I've published a book and curricula on God's plan for relationships - 2 in fact. I started a marriage ministry, raised up new leaders to take my place and went on to start a thriving young adult ministry. Most people would call that success, but darn if that voice still doesn't "lay me down to sleep". Most of the time it's subconscious but I can't deny the battle that my best is not enough. Is enough ever enough?
I don't care where you are on the road to success, your best is never enough when it's measured by what you can produce. The truth is, there's always someone who can outdo your enough. Position is temporary no matter how vast the knowledge or superior the talent; it's a wonder we even keep trying. You see, we all have an insatiable need for approval but we don't have the means to secure it. We long for the simple, rare find of someone who will say, "The search is over. You are just what we've been looking for." That's called contentment. Do you realize that's what God feels when he finds you?
"...I have become in his eyes like one bringing contentment." Song of Solomon 8:10. I know it's a bit of a stretch but when God finds you, his search is really over. No one else will do. He is completely content in just Y.O.U. If God is for you, there's just no other opinion that really matters.
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About Me
- Cindy Janczyk
- Author of "Finding Intimacy in a Love-Starved World" Discovering God's plan for relationships. Written with young adults in mind. Available as a book and curriculum series. Visit www.thesosproject.com for details.
5 comments:
Way to go, Cindy! I am inspired by your heart for young people and those who struggle with identity, because I have been both. Thanks and blessings to you. BTW...If you are interested, I started a blog a couple days ago too! It's at http://jeremiahherbert.blogspot.com take a look if you get the time.
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great stuff! How about you Cindy? Are you content?
Your honesty & vulnerability pave the way for me to take a look at my own struggles. Thank you.
I think you have touched more lives then you can imagine. Your book and your classes have sowed much seed and taken many out of their comfort zones. I know how they have helped me to grow in Christ and into leadership role. And most of all, you are there for us if we need encouragement and to lift us up. what a gifted person you are!!
J- I am more content than I have ever been but the cement is still wet. Working to really believe that God regards me with a deep sense of contentment is a new layer of identity that comes with quite a learning curve. But the more I choose to believe it, the more I can rest in the simplicity of being me.
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