The Still Small Voice

The Freedom of Becoming Who God Made Us to Be

So often, as humans, we tend to be blown about by every wind.

We live in a world that reminds us daily that we must achieve more—more success, more popularity, more status, more influence.

We are inundated with images of curated perfection and often quietly wonder if we will ever measure up.

The pressure to be “enough” by the world’s standards can feel crushing—even paralyzing. And in response, many of us have become chameleons or people-pleasers. We desperately want love and acceptance. We want to belong. We want to be enough.

And in trying to meet these expectations, we often reshape ourselves to match the world’s definition of worth. We overfunction, over-apologize, over-accommodate.

We try to earn worldly love by remaking ourselves in its image—and in doing so, we often lose ourselves.

The truth is, this posture is not only spiritually precarious—it is exhausting.

A verse in Ephesians speaks directly to this:

“Then we will no longer be infants, tossed back and forth by the waves, and blown here and there by every wind…” — Ephesians 4:14

I pray we can read that and respond with a resounding yes and amen.

Because our God is not the author of confusion (1 Corinthians 14:33). And the peace we long for—the deep, soul-level love we crave—will never be found in the world’s version of validation. It will come from being anchored in Jesus, in truth, and in the clarity of who we truly are.

“Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.” — 2 Corinthians 3:17

The presence of God is not confusing or constraining. It frees us. It steadies us. It speaks in stillness and confirms in peace.

And it is a peace that transcends all human understanding (Philippians 4:7), an all-pervasive, radical peace that can exist even in the midst of circumstances that make zero sense to the world.

As C.S. Lewis once said,

“The more we let God take us over, the more truly ourselves we become—because He made us. He invented us. He invented all the different people that you and I were intended to be.”

We must learn to trust that chaos can never compete with God’s voice.

We are not here to mirror the expectations of others: we are here to reflect the image and glory of our God. We are being made brave. We are learning to walk upon the waters, where our feet may fail, but His grace abounds.

We are stepping into places where trust is without borders—not in our strength, but in His calling.

And we are learning something else, too: we can choose joy. We can choose to live in laughter, in truth, in peace, wholly and unapologetically
ourselves—an act of radical faith.

Darkness does not have the power to strip away the peace we’ve been given in Christ—nor the joy that is the fruit of the Holy Spirit.

In His image, we are steady. We are no longer blown about.

We are anchored.