As a career changer, I’m back in the throes of revising my résumé and CV, updating LinkedIn, crafting those succinct but impactful cover letters, and making to-do lists to write thank you notes to interviewers and references. As I sit here thinking about the way our society demands so much from us to prove our worth or value to earn a spot at the table, I am immensely grateful that my God does not ask for a résumé or require an interview to offer salvation. My résumé would be rife with demerits and full of selfishness—not the qualities he exudes or requires. I am so grateful that Jesus had the perfect résumé to meet the standard so that I can walk freely into the family of God—unhindered by my lacking qualifications or past.
If you are feeling the pressures of measuring up whether at school, work, or home—I want to encourage you to turn your mind and heart to Jesus. Meditate on how he did not come to save the righteous but the unrighteous. He did not come to heal the healthy but the sick. We are all unrighteous and sick—this world certainly has a way of showing us that daily—but our hope isn’t found in our ability to fix ourselves or make ourselves desirable, it’s in the sanctifying work of the Holy Spirit changing our hearts from stone to flesh, from sinful to righteous, from evil to good.
You may not be chosen for that dream job—but God chose us when we didn’t deserve it. Dwell on that when those crushing disappointments endeavor to steal your joy and hope.
“And when Jesus heard it, he said to them, ‘Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick. I came not to call the righteous, but sinners.’” Mark 2:17 ESV
“The saying is trustworthy and deserving of full acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am the foremost.” 1 Timothy 1:15 ESV
By Pin Pricks 