I AM says who I am

I have to start giving myself more slack and live in grace. There's this feeling of incompleteness I'm getting over. I'm not who I think I am, I'm not even who others think I am. C'mon man, get back to it, you are who God sees you and knows you to be.

Fearfully, wonderfully made. Redeemed. Yet, the temporal quickly gives way to seeing what I don't have, or haven't done, or where I lack. Struggling through things, because holiness does hurt.

No one can fall in love with a résumé. Accolades don't give reason for existence. Purpose is found only in Christ. So yes, keep pressing for notable and high goals, but they aren't measurements for success, worth, or even validation. God won't give me things that I will let become idols. 

A house is a good thing to push towards, but it doesn't define me. A woman is a gift from God, but she won't save my broken heart, and I can't view a wife as a savior from the things I don't want to deal with. A six figure income can be used to worship God in different ways, but not more than where I am now. 

I guess there are new views The Lord has been showing me in regards to personal worth as a son, and stewardship because this time and place I've been put into existence. Simple truth for some, but being finite and so easily over-saturated, I forget too quickly.

That's why scripture always points to Christ over and over and over, because that's how much we forget. 

Soli Deo Gloria