Maybe today isn’t about doing more

Most of us are pretty good at monitoring what’s happening on the outside. Calendar full, responsibilities handled, people responded to. But the real question is often what’s happening on the inside.

So let me ask you a few gentle, but revealing questions.

How would you describe your inner self right now?

• Do you feel connected, or quietly disconnected?

• Alive on the inside, or a bit dull and flat?

• Excited about life, or more ambivalent than you’d like to admit?

• Proactive and intentional, or mostly reactive and passive?

None of these questions come with condemnation. They are simply indicators. Like symptoms, they help us notice what might be going on beneath the surface.

Another question worth sitting with is this:

Am I acting from fear, survival, or compensation, rather than clarity and wholeness?

Fear-driven living often looks busy and productive, but it is fuelled by anxiety. Survival mode narrows your vision until everything becomes about getting through. Compensation can push you to prove, strive, control, or over-function, not because God is leading, but because something inside feels unresolved or unsafe.

And then there’s this one, which I find particularly searching.

Am I listening for what He wants to do through me, or am I trying to force an outcome?

When we stop listening, we start pushing. We pray less and plan more. We grasp for certainty instead of walking by trust. We confuse movement with obedience and urgency with faithfulness.

The invitation of Jesus is always gentler and deeper than that.

The Way Forward

The treatment is not more effort. It’s alignment.

When you are rooted in your identity in Christ, you don’t have to perform for worth or control for safety. You become attentive to the quiet promptings of the Holy Spirit, rather than driven by internal noise.

Fear loses its grip. Self-protection loosens. The need to control outcomes fades.

Instead of forcing your own will, you begin to notice what God is already doing, and you join Him there. That’s where peace returns. That’s where clarity grows. That’s where you come alive again on the inside.

This isn’t about fixing yourself. It’s about re-centering your life around Jesus, and letting everything else fall back into its proper place.

Maybe today isn’t about doing more.

Maybe it’s about listening again.