You are scrolling Instagram, and you see a stream of perfect shots — perfectly edited, with perfect music overlay, perfect lives, perfect relationships, perfect health, perfect backdrops — and you gradually begin to feel the weight of something build on you. It’s a specific kind of pressure that comes from the internal voice that says, “My life is a failure. I must be doing it all wrong.”
Today, we look at how to resist this pressure you feel and how to find meaning and purpose in life by embracing the shocking idea that God had an intentional, glorious design when he created you — and you probably won’t find it comparing your life to the images others post of themselves online. We get there in this question from a young woman: “Pastor John, what would you say to a young man or woman who feels embarrassed by biblical roles, like submission in marriage or male leadership in the church? I love Jesus, but I also feel a lot of pressure from other Christians in my life to ‘outgrow’ these ideas about roles. But I see them in the Bible. And although I see them, I don’t feel them as good things. Does that make sense? So, how can I learn to not only accept, but happily embrace, the goodness of being made female?”
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