Why Is It So Hard to Do What God Created You to Do?

Why is it so hard to do what God created you to do?

If God made you for a purpose, shouldn’t it feel natural? Shouldn’t you be good at it from the start?

That’s the question many men wrestle with—and if we get the answer wrong, we risk giving up on the very thing God designed us to do.

In this episode, I share three powerful reasons why your calling feels difficult:

• It requires faith before you see your talent
• God uses difficulty to produce humility
• Hardship tests the quality of your faith

You’ll discover why feeling unqualified doesn’t mean you’re off track—it may actually be part of the process.

If you’ve ever thought, “I'm not enough” this episode will help you see your struggle differently—and give you a path forward.

👉 Question to consider:
 Where is God calling you to trust Him before you feel ready?

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Transcript

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Hey friends, welcome to the True Dia Masterpiece podcast. I'm Craig Walker, founder of Craig Walker Coaching, author of the book Shameless, The Life You Were Born to Love, and the creator of the Truly a Masterpiece course and podcast. Now, if you've ever wrestled with self-doubt or shame, that voice that whispers that you're just not enough, or maybe the fear that people are about to figure you out, you're in the right place. I feel your pain. For most of my life, I lived with fear and insecurity until one night in 2014 when I told God, Enough. Like Jacob, I wrestled with him until he gave me the insights that changed everything. Today, by his grace, I live with more confidence, love, and joy than I ever thought possible. I want to help you do the same. Each week I'll share biblical truths, practical tools, and real stories from people who are just like you, but they won their battle with shame and self-doubt, and they're living that life that God created them to love. So grab a cup of coffee, settle in. This is going to be fun. Let's get started. Why is it so hard to do what God created you to do? If God called you to lead, why do you feel like a fraud? Why aren't you good at it yet? And why does it sometimes just feel like God's not even helping me? Well, I've asked all these questions before, and I've come to realize if you get these wrong, you won't just feel stuck. You may walk away from the very thing that God created you to do, and you'll misunderstand who God says that you are. Now, recently I found three answers to this question in the book of Deuteronomy, chapters 7 through 9, during my quiet time, and I look forward to sharing these with you today. They answer it solidly in a way that helps, in a way that encourages. So I hope you'll grab a pen and paper and follow along. Here they are. Number one, why is doing what God calls you to do so hard? Because doing what God created you to do requires faith. And that's what makes it hard. Listen, faith's not natural. Faith is believing what you cannot see. In other words, you must accept your calling before you'll discover your talent. How's that work? Well, through faith, you develop skills, and through developed skills, talent is revealed over time. But it all starts with faith. It all starts by believing what God says about you. You must believe you were made for your calling before you can become good at your calling. That's what I'm trying to say. That's golden. And that's hard. Because when you look at yourself honestly, you don't look qualified to do what you're called to do. God always asks us to do things that are far greater than we can do. That was true for Israel. God told them, He said, I didn't choose you because you were more numerous than the other nations. No, I chose you because you were the smallest. So watch this. Looking at themselves, I can see why Israel would say, No way, we can't win. But faith says, don't look at yourself, but see yourself through God's calling. Faith, it's what allows you to grow into what God called you to do. Faith makes it hard though. Here's the second reason I think doing God's will is hard. Because God allows difficulty to produce humility. In other words, God allowed it. That's why it's hard. I was amazed when I read this in Deuteronomy chapter 8, verse 3. Moses told Israel that God had let them go hungry at times, fed them the same, I'm paraphrasing, the same boring food, manna, day after day. And he says, why? To humble you. What's humility? What is that? I think people often get this wrong. We tend to say humility is thinking less of yourself or thinking lowly of yourself. Friend, that's not it at all. Humility is really seeing yourself as God sees you. Humility allows you to have an incredibly high view of yourself without becoming prideful or haughty. With humility, you don't think less of yourself. You're just free to think of yourself less because you're so secure in who you are. When a person begins to see himself as God sees him, everything changes. Everything. But I need to be honest and tell you this. Without humility, you can still experience your best. You can. You can still knock it out of the park. But with humility, you can experience God's best. And which do you prefer? How can you tell if you're truly humble? It's your obedience. With humility, you just know it's not about you. It's about you doing the will of God. And so you begin to hunger and to thirst for God, to know him better, to please him in everything. I love the second part of Deuteronomy chapter 8. It said, God allowed these hardships, that part I paraphrased, to teach you, to teach God's people that you don't live by bread alone, but you live by every word that comes out of the mouth of God. Often doing God's will is hard because God is trying to teach us to stop looking at ourselves and start seeing ourselves as He sees us. That's humility. Here's the third reason doing God's will is hard. God uses hardship to test the quality of your faith. Faith is what gives us the ability to persevere. Our lack of faith is revealed when we give up before the job is done or before God has called us away. Napoleon Hill's book, Think and Grow Rich, he tells a story. It's famously now been dubbed the Three Feet from Gold Story. Hill tells of R. U. Darby and his uncle. They went west during the Colorado Gold Rush. They found gold or excitedly, they raised money, bought mining equipment, began drilling, and initially they pulled gold out of the ground. But then suddenly the vein disappeared. They continued drilling, continued working, but finally they just grew weary and discouraged, and eventually they just gave up, sold their mining equipment, they quit. Well, the buyer wasn't convinced that the gold was gone, so he hired a mining engineer to examine the site. The engineer explained that the miners had missed gold, the gold vein, because of a geological fault. Now the new owner began drilling, and he struck gold. Guess what? Three feet from where Darby and his uncle had stopped. This is a great story. He'll use the story to teach the importance of perseverance. Perseverance, this is an admirable quality, and we all need it, okay? However, there's one question that we must ask before persevering at anything, and this is it. Has God called you to do what you're doing? Are you doing it because you want to get rich or for some other pleasurable outcome? Then when it gets hard, I understand why you'd quit. Or are you doing what you're doing because God created you and called you to do it? You see, that's the first question we must always answer. If God created you for this task or for this work, then don't quit until the job is done, until God calls you away. Difficulty is not necessarily a sign that God is not helping you, it's often just a test that you have to pass. And too many people chase comfort instead of following a calling, and they just quit too soon. You can trust that if you're doing God's work, God will in time provide the way. Alright, I have a challenge for you. It's a question to answer. Here it is. Is what you're doing, is it what God wants you to do? Is it what you feel like God created you to do? I think a lot of people can say, I just know it's not. I'm not doing God's will. If that's the case, you need to change gears. You need to pivot or stop. Just quit it. Well, you say, well, what if I'm if if if I'm just about to hit the big payoff, the big money's coming? What if you're just feed away from striking gold? Listen, I think this is important to understand. The gold isn't in the ground. It's not. The gold is doing the will of God who created you. I've seen too many men trade peace and fulfillment for success. And it isn't, it isn't a good trade, guys. If you're doing what you know God called you to do, or what you think God called you to do, I would tell you this, and keep going. Don't quit, don't walk away. Don't don't do it. Did you realize that Israel could have reached the promised land? The land not of hardships. It wasn't. It was a land that God said metaphorically is flowing with milk and honey. They could have been there in as little as a couple of months, and as much as as much as two years maximum. But because they lacked faith, humility, they failed to stick with God's calling, and the hardship lasted 40 years, 40 long years of experiencing hunger and eating that same boring food, manna, they made doing what God created them to do a lot harder than God ever intended for it to be. And far too often people chase pleasure, comfort, and success, and they forfeit, and they forfeit satisfaction, joy, peace, and fulfillment. Doing what God calls you to do, yep, it's hard. But it's the fastest way to enjoy the life that God created you to love. Man, I hope this has encouraged you, and I sure hope and pray that that it helps you. In fact, I want to pray it right now. Father in heaven, I do pray for everyone that listens to this that God, that they would they would sense you and and and faith would well up inside of them that you have called them and they would persevere at what you've called them to do, and in time experience you doing what only you can do through them. Lord, help us all to see ourselves through your eyes, not through our eyes, but through your eyes, and do everything you created us to do. Guys, I hope you have been helped by it. Uh let me just tell you this as I wrap up. I've got a book out there called Shameless, the Life You Were Born to Love, full of insights like this. Please get the book. It's on Amazon, find it, buy it, and let God change your life. Share this podcast with a friend. You know someone that needs to be encouraged by this, please give it to them. And there's one more thing that I'll leave you with. We have a Masterpiece men's group. If you're looking for a group of guys to join that that are on the same journey as you are, to live with confidence and influence, way more than we ever imagined. And it's possible for us. We just can't do it alone. Join us. The links for all these things, they're inside the notes from this show. And thanks again for joining me. And until next time, may God help you to live that life that you were born to love.