Do you ever feel like you’re not good enough? A friend, lamenting the inevitable learning curve of his new job, said recently, “I just don’t feel good enough.” And I said, “Well, you aren’t…and you aren’t supposed to be.”

What is good enough? How would we know? Who gets to decide?

Scripture records Jesus saying that no one is good except God alone (Mark 10:18). So, no, we aren’t good enough…at our jobs, at home, even in terms of our character. We want to be, but we just aren’t “good enough.”

That doesn’t mean we don’t do our best. We show up every day with the expectation that we will put forth 100% effort in all we do, not in a sense of striving and staining, but in a sense of “Here I am Lord, send me!”(Isaiah 6:8). He knows our limitations. He knows our skills, abilities, and strengths. Remember, He made you. He knit you together in your mother’s womb. He made you wonderful and awe-inspiring (Psalm 139)! He knows what you can do, and He doesn’t expect you to do more.

We don’t have to do God’s job for Him by being “good.” In fact, trying to be like God is what got Satan and his cohorts into trouble. Rest in the peace of God and trust Him to be Good. He is so good.

What a relief. We don’t have to measure up to some man-made standard…including our own. That is so freeing! You get to just be your best you, and let Him do the rest. It is so refreshing to know that being “good enough” is His job, not ours.

Trust God to do His part, and goodness and unfailing love will follow you all the days of your life, and you will dwell in the house of the Lord, forever (Psalm 23:6).

Scripture references taken from THE HOLY BIBLE, New Living Translation, copyright 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation.