"you can do this by adding goodness"

It has taken me a few days to unpack the next part of this verse.

I am all about measuring goodness.  Am I good enough?  Was that good enough?  Are my kids good enough?  Ugh.  It can drain me.

Over the years, I have learned (and tried to put into practise) that the only way I can ever be "good enough" is to keep my eyes and heart focused on Jesus.  Not on other people or the things the world points to as measures of goodness or success.

It is still a struggle though for me at times.

So I wasn't really sure what to say about this part of the verse. 

 How can I focus on goodness without getting caught up in measuring my worth by it?

Then this morning, I came across this quote by John Wesley:

Do all the good you can

by all the means you can

in all the ways you can

for all the people you can

at all the times you can

for as long as you can.

In other words, ask to be a simple conduit of God's goodness; allowing His goodness to flow through me at all times.  It's not something I can do or add to my life except through God.