I’ve been staring at this blank screen for a while, trying to come up with something to write. Every time I start something, I erase it and start over.
Why?
Because it wasn’t good enough.
“Good enough?” the voice in my head says. “Even what you’re writing now isn’t good enough. Why should anyone read what you have to say? What do you have to say, really?”
The voice in my head is loud. It’s drowning out a lot right now. Especially the voice of God.
When I started this blog several years ago, it was a free WordPress site called swimmingforhim. I started it because I needed a place to write down my thoughts, and somehow people just started reading them.
Fast forward to about 4 years ago while I was in graduate school. My friend and I were leading a women’s Bible study, and we wanted to do a study over the summer, but be able to do it at our own pace via email. We searched for a study that we liked, but we couldn’t fine anything, and eventually my friend suggested that I write the study for the summer. After my initial laughter, I decided to give it a try, and so wrote my first study on the fruit of the Spirit.
Somewhere between then and now, I decided to turn my worpress site into something bigger – an actual ministry. So, I changed the name, I changed the site, and so was born All For Him Life.
When I started, God directed that I would write studies and blog posts and if their only purpose was to help one person, even if that one person was me, it was worth it. It was good.
Not just good enough. Good.
What are you doing today that the voice in your head keeps telling you isn’t good enough? Is it your job? Your method of parenting? Your writing? Your relationship with your spouse?
Don’t listen to that voice. Instead, take your request to God. He will direct your steps and help you to see the purpose in what you are doing, and remind you that you are good enough. He died for you, didn’t he?
So even when – no, especially when – you’re having trouble seeing how what you’re doing for the Kingdom is good enough, lean on Him, let Him be the loudest voice to remind you:
You are enough.