What if you actually held the weight of the world on your shoulders? And everyone around you was screaming, “You are not good enough, we don’t want you!” Would you keep going, pushing on? Would you fall and stay down on the ground? If all you wanted to do was love people and bring them hope, what would you do if they spat at you and beat you? They make you walk in front of everyone, carrying a burden no one should have to bear. They nail you to a piece of wood for doing your best and being everything for everyone and you still were not good enough for them. They ask you to prove yourself by saving yourself. They say that you are only good enough if you do this. But you don’t save yourself. You don’t oblige their demands. You don’t worry about what they think of you because you care too much about your purpose, to save the ones who condemn you for your inadequacy, and nothing will deter you. 

    Would you do that? Maybe not. That’s okay because you don’t have to. I hope I would stand tall, and pursue my purpose as I did in the anecdote I mentioned. But I am not Jesus and neither are you. I find it so interesting that there is a story of a man who died to save the people who didn’t love him, didn’t want him. There are very few people in the world who actually merit our personal time and energy. And as a person of faith, I have come to realize that there is only one. The person who does not value my performance, but for me as a person. Who, when other people say I am not good enough, He says I am more than enough. And in a profession that I hope to pursue, despite the stress, fear of rejection, and comparison that is inevitable, I lean on the one person who could have cared less about what other people thought of him because of how much he loved me. I might not ever be good enough according to the world, and even when I am, I have to take their opinions cautiously. But I wonder and I am sure you are wondering too… how will we survive this life, in whatever we choose to do? Because unlike the grace of God, the rewards of our works, our passions, our ways of living on earth only come after judgment.