As I started my journey toward becoming the man God intended me to be, I knew I was average. Perhaps below average. I was a mediocre husband, my family and I were living paycheck to paycheck, and my closest friends hardly recognized that I was a Christian.
Deep down, I knew there was more to life than what I was doing in that moment. That there had to be more.
The hardest part of attempting to become more than average is that being average is comfortable. Our culture encourages us to be average – to settle for less than. To not speak our mind or stand by our beliefs. But I knew that not only could I be better than that, I needed to be better than that.
And eventually, after I’d worked hard to better myself, I knew I could help others become better, too.