God: Let’s talk about what you just said.
Joshua: I think I’m prone to burnout.
God: (shakes his head) Who told you that?
[(God and I discuss why I believe that and a series of events from my past.)]
I want for you to watch [a YouTube short you saw in the past on burnout again].
[(I look up one from the same creator, but a different video, and watch it.)]
Joshua: He said to “make sure you can see the impact of your work”. That [burnout happens] because you feel like your work didn’t mean anything.
God: (nods) Which is exactly what [you had been told]. That you’d done everything incorrectly. … In other words, “yeah, none of your work mattered”.
…
So you were given two lies, [without other voices having room to speak into your life]:
- “Your work doesn’t matter”: … In other words: “Joshua, I don’t believe anything you contribute in this world matters”.
- The second one is just as deadly: “You are wrong about what matters”. You thought you knew. [You were told] you didn’t. What a way to break a man down. [That wasn’t supposed to be boot camp].
Break those in Jesus’s name.
[(I do.)]
Joshua, your work matters.