Success by Lowering the Bar
“But when we begin to see that our life is in Jesus and not success, we can pursue our expectations, however high and lofty. We may reach them or we may not, but we are now free to try, without our success or failure ultimately saying something about us. We don’t need to lower the bar to prop up our ego.
So today are you tempted to lower your expectations about what you want to accomplish because it will preserve your ego? If so, then remember, it wasn’t your definition of success that is the problem, it is that you think accomplishment is what defines you.”
Thanks, Tim Dunn, for this post today. I needed to hear this. I have big dreams for a movement of the gospel in Ann Arbor (planting 25 churches in 25 years, creating a training and equipping center, etc), yet I worry about “dreaming too big”. What if I fail, and I plant nothing and no one gets equipped? If my identity is found in Jesus, then I haven’t failed. I’m still on the path God ordained for me, it’s just a different one than I thought.