For some people you’re always going to be too much . . . you’re going to do too much, talk too much, love God too much, serve too much, worship too much, be too busy . . .
For other people you’re never going to be enough . . . you won’t do enough, you won’t be friendly enough, love God enough, serve enough, worship enough, be busy enough . . .
If you’re extrovert, you should be an introvert . . . if you’re an introvert, you should be an extrovert. If you’re loud, you should be quiet, and if you’re quiet, you should be loud. If you’re shy, you’re not outgoing enough, but if you’re outgoing, you should probably tone it down a bit.
It’s the reality of being human in a world where we’re all tempted to judge others based not on standards set up in God’s word, but instead, on standards created by our opinions, interests, and preferences. And if you’re a person that tends to find themselves caught in the trap of people pleasing, this can be an absolute nightmare. You’ll spend more time trying meet the expectations of everyone around you, rather than being who God created you to be. On the flip side, we all are guilty of making snap judgments based on what we see in front of us, rather than letting people be the person they were created to be.
What’s the solution? It’s the simplest and hardest thing ever . . . it’s not that we stop caring about treating others well, or that we never make compromises and meet others halfway. It is that we stop trying to contort ourselves into someone we’re not to fit the expectations of others. We have to be okay with the fact that some people aren’t going to like us. They’re going to judge us and based upon those judgments, there will always be people who feel like we should be doing more . . . or less . . . that we should be more or less . . . whatever the case may be. We have to learn to be fine with this . . . because I can promise you the blood of Jesus covers all the gaps and all the excesses, and He loves us without condition. We were created by a loving and gracious God, and we need to embrace the fact that He wants us to come to Him, not all cleaned up and pretty with a bow on top, but in all of our “too much/not enough” glory.
For the LORD does not see as man sees; for man looks at the outward appearance, but the LORD looks at the heart. From 1 Samuel 16:7
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