00:00This is a thing that experts are calling the striver's curse. Oftentimes in our lives, that thing that drive to achieve comes from a place of brokenness. You wonder, am I really enough? And so you set out to work really hard to prove it. Do I really belong? So you set out really hard to prove that you do belong. Listen, friend, no matter how hard you work, no matter what result you get, no matter what fancy title gets put on the nameplate in the front of your desk or in your office door, doesn't matter, you cannot validate yourself. You cannot give yourself approval. See, all of us have this choice. We can either work out of our woundedness or we can accept the wounds of Christ on our behalf. We can accept the work he did that validates us, the work he did that says we're secure, the work he did that we could never accomplish on our own.