Enneagram 3's
- Melanie Erickson

- Sep 8
- 2 min read
Reflection -- God’s effectiveness and excellence in His design; one of divine purpose with significance and beauty.
Enneagram 3’s are admired for their creativity, confident presence and enduring inner drive to achieve and accomplish abundantly with focus, flexibility and finesse.
Wrestle -- approval, performance, deception;
Success can come at a price. With motivations unattended to, love and worth can become a measure of excessive output (not unconditional). Acceptance can come with conforming to the image and will of self and others (not God’s), leading to a vicious cycle of artificial satisfaction, duplicity and exhaustion.
Response -- Jesus is the one and only who defines TRUE success.
REST in knowing you are fully accepted and valued (complete) by HIS accomplishments alone, not yours.
RECEIVE God’s invitation to be loved and seen for who you TRULY are, (unmasked, idle). IMAGO DEI.
From this newfound liberty from striving to thriving, you are freely able to extend your gifts of joy, generosity, depth, cooperation and eagerness out in the world as a product of GOD’S GLORY alone, not yours.
Remember -- Jesus knew who he was (Beloved Son) and was always about His Father’s business.
You are called to the same identity and purpose! In Christ, through the Spirit and for the Father, you are secure, heavenly focused and divinely purposeful!

Ephesians 5:1-2 - "Therefore be imitators of God as beloved children; and walk in love, just as Christ loved you…"
Ephesians 2:8-10 - "For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; not as a result of works, so that no one may boast. For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand so that we would walk in them."




