Here's a simple lyric video for My Best My Rest!

This song was partly inspired by advice I heard from Alexa PenaVega. She got asked "how do you deal with self-worth issues?" and responded with "stop focusing on yourself." At the time I heard this, I wasn't really struggling with "self-worth" issues. But when I was, I thought back to Alexa's advice. I thought about how focusing on myself was robbing me of my joy and peace. I thought about how fulfilled I felt when I was instead working with Christ. I thought about how my giftings were better used when I wasn't worried about me. Tim Keller has a sermon called "Blessed Self-Forgetfullness." In it, he talks about how low self-esteem and high self-esteem are both about exactly what they say: yourself. In order to truly be free, we have to have the attitude Paul has when he says "But to me it is a very small thing that I may be examined by you, or by any human court; in fact, I do not even examine myself. For I am conscious of nothing against myself, yet I am not by this acquitted; but the one who examines me is the Lord." In the end, what matters is our relationship with Christ; not how we look, or how athletic we are, or how smart we are. Our job is to love Christ, and from this love flows a love for others. This is to be free - not constantly worrying about ourselves, but constantly fixed on someone greater than ourselves. Because we can't be our best when we're focused on our worst. And we can't find our rest when we don't know who gives us worth.

Thanks for listening, and I hope you enjoy this song.

LYRICS
VERSE 1
I said I’d never be the same, not again
But I guess that I lied
Because as I’m staring back at me all those thoughts they come back
And reenter my mind
Naturally, I wanna be liked
But by grace I’ve been freed from those lies
Still, my focus it, it’s been shifting
From Your love to things I despise

CHORUS
I can’t be my best if I’m focused on my worst
And I can’t find my rest if I don’t know what I’m worth
To You God, ‘cause all the rest is nothing
I can’t find my rest, my best without You Lord
Without You Lord

VERSE 2
I’ve been so caught up in me I didn’t see
I’m lacking joy and peace
It’s tunnel vision how I’ve been thinking
I can’t worry ‘bout my neighbor ‘cause
It’s all about me
(CHORUS)

BRIDGE (x2)
If I’m focused on my worst
Then there's no way I can help those who are hurt
If I can’t see beyond me
Then there's no way I can be who You made me to be

INTERLUDE
I can't be my best
I can't find my rest

(CHORUS)

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