The Burden Is Light: Liberating Your Life from the Tyranny of Performance and Success

A lifetime of emotions rose in my heart, and I began to weep. It would be a medal not for winning but for running my own race. A medal not for finishing first but for finishing the race I was called to run.

have seen others run from the call of God and become successful in business but miserable in their souls.

My story is not a neutral one but a contested one. It reveals the conflict between the tyranny of the world and the wonder of God’s grace.

But a fast from comparison and a feast on biblical identity could move your life into a place of freedom and delight. You would be more present to those you love and begin to notice things happening around you.

It is evil to use people for our own glory. It is evil to do good things for bad reasons. It is evil to have influence without intimacy. It is evil to do things in Jesus’s name without Jesus’s compassion. Impact without intimacy is evil.

I feel that you took the gifts I had as a teenager and leveraged them to build something for yourself, and I came out pretty lost. I felt like a commodity. I just wanted you to know that because you are still in ministry, and I don’t want other people to have the same experience I had.”

I saw the primal conflict of the ages—Satan thrown out of heaven—yet I don’t boast about it. I have come to care about people.

We are all called by God to share in His life and in His Kingdom. Each one of us is called to a special place in the Kingdom. If we find that place we will be happy. If we do not find it, we can never be completely happy.

I Am Significant • I am a branch of Jesus Christ, the true vine, and a channel of his life. (John 15:5) • I have been chosen and appointed to bear fruit. (John 15:16) • I am God’s temple. (1 Corinthians 3:16) • I am a minister of reconciliation for God. (2 Corinthians 5:17–21) • I am seated with Jesus Christ in the heavenly realm. (Ephesians 2:6) •