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I don\u2019t know about you, but early on in life I learned I was not enough.\u00a0 I don\u2019t know where it was or when it was, or if there was a conspiracy behind it.\u00a0 But I\u2019ve found that I\u2019m not the only one.<\/p>\nI don\u2019t know about you, but early on in life I learned I was not enough.\u00a0 I don\u2019t know where it was or when it was, or if there was a conspiracy behind it.\u00a0 But I\u2019ve found that I\u2019m not the only one.<\/p>\n
You know what I\u2019m talking about.\u00a0 I\u2019m not good enough, big enough, smart enough.\u00a0 I don\u2019t have enough money.\u00a0 I was here too late, too early; should have been here yesterday.\u00a0 You know all the excuses.\u00a0 But here is what I have learned – when I say \u201clearned\u201d I mean I\u2019m continuing to learn – and that is, the only thing I can be the absolute best at is being me.<\/strong> Yeah, me.\u00a0 The unique me that God created.<\/p>\n Think about it.\u00a0 Here is God who created the universe, the earth and everything in it.\u00a0 And He creates me.\u00a0 He made a decision to make me how tall I am, how natively intelligent I am, and a whole other list of things like the fact that I wear a size thirteen shoe.\u00a0 But those are not the things that make you and me truly unique.\u00a0 It\u2019s our heart, our soul, our personhood, our humanity given to us by our God.<\/strong><\/p>\n Here is what I\u2019ve decided.\u00a0 I\u2019m going to stop trying to be someone else.<\/strong> I know, at my age I should have learned this a long time ago.\u00a0 But I know I\u2019m not the only one.<\/p>\n I remember an old song I heard years ago that said, \u201cI am the one and only.\u201d\u00a0 I didn\u2019t like it at first until I listened to the lyrics.\u00a0 And it\u2019s a plaintive cry to simply embrace fully<\/em> who you are,<\/strong> because there is only one thing you could ever really be the absolute best at, better than anyone in the whole world.\u00a0 And that is being you; being fully you.<\/p>\n Everything that God created lies within you in your potential.\u00a0 But it\u2019s your choice to embrace it, to reach it, to bring it out and to offer it up.\u00a0 There is a verse in the book of Romans that says that we present our bodies as a living sacrifice.\u00a0 What an odd thing to say.\u00a0 Sacrifice is die, right?\u00a0 But the kind of sacrifices we need in our world gone mad, are living sacrifices: men and women who fully embrace their gifts, their talents, and their passions in the name of God and in the name of good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I don\u2019t know about you, but early on in life I learned I was not enough.\u00a0 I don\u2019t know where it was or when it was, or if there was a conspiracy behind it.\u00a0 But I\u2019ve found that I\u2019m not the only one. You know what I\u2019m talking about.\u00a0 I\u2019m not good enough, big enough, … Continue reading “I\u2019m the Best Man for the Job”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"series":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3185"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3185\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3185"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=3185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}