I too feel empty, yearn to be whole, to be full. My heart, like Jenner’s, is a desire-making machine that cranks out more wants than this life can ever satisfy. And you are the same.
What Jenner expressed by trying to transition from a man to a woman is a deeply human reality, one that has been twisted by our sinful state. We are made to yearn and to pursue and charge through this life as hard as a decathlete pursuing a gold medal. Jenner’s answer was wrong. It turned away from God’s intent and design, but that is what happens when identity is sought in the world and not in Christ. And so many of our answers are wrong too—work, relationships, sex, and accomplishments all become our gender swap.
We give up what God made us to be for something we fabricate ourselves. We seek identity and wholeness in something artificial instead of finding it in Christ. My heart and your heart are not so different than Jenner’s, and when we look at him we should see first the emptiness only Christ can fill and see the same in ourselves.
