When You Can't Live up to Expectations (Doctrine & Covenants 3-5 Come Follow Me)

Simplify for Sanity PDF and Challenge: https://www.innerstrength.me/simplifypdf Everyone expects so much of you.   Because you're a good person, you tend to do your best not to let them down.   It's human nature.   But then this tricky thing happens.   Sometimes... okay most times...   God asks us to do hard things.   We start doing them... and then it gets hard.   It looks like there is no way we can succeed on our own.   Did the analysis, definitely not qualified. And then fear of what people will think creeps in. Before we know it, we're desperately trying NOT TO FAIL instead of trusting God to help us succeed.   My brain does that fear thing way too often.   But here's the truth:   You will always fall short when your motivation is fear instead of faith.   Why?   Because your brain is trying to figure out if you can handle it based on what your eyes see and your brain knows.   It leaves God out of the equation.   So, in the moment when you know you aren't enough, it feels impossible to trust God's promises more than the evidence in front of your eyes.   It's a struggle Joseph Smith struggled with, too.   In this episode, I talk about the life-changing lessons he learned from one of the biggest mistakes he ever made.   And-   What each of us can learn about what to do when our logic says God's logic is wrong.