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This is so important. I'll be first to call out the pitfalls of platforming & self-promotion. But the message is not you. The message is outside of you. Share it. Tell it. Steward it well.
One of the biggest mistakes we can make in vocation is tying our identity & value too closely to the the work we have been called to.
You'll know it's happening when you find
>you can't take critique of your work
>your life & becomes the consumable product
>you *must* succeed or lose your sense of self
>you can't take critique of your work
>your life & becomes the consumable product
>you *must* succeed or lose your sense of self
What @trillianewbell's describing depends on having enough distance btwn you & your work to recognize that stewarding it includes other people. Your collective responsibility is to the WORK.
Ephesians 2:10 speaks about our work this way: "For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them."
Our work exists outside of us even as we are sanctified & cultivated in the process of doing it.
The work we're called to is the work that God will use to do His work in us. But *we* are not our work. We are God's work.
I understand my work as akin to my work as a parent. God used me to bring my children into existence & parenting includes nurturing, training, & advocating for them. But they are not me... even as they look like me & reflect me in many ways.
I would be an unfaithful if I did not sacrifice for them & love them for the gift that they are. But I do not live my life through them or place my identity in them. It's the same w/ any other work we're called to, whether it's pastoring a church, writing books, or fixing cars.
In fact, when our needs & identity are too present in these things--when we need them too much--we end up destroying them.
All that to say, be faithful to the work. Be faithful to the partnerships. Be faithful to the calling.
