Who you are is enough.
Don’t believe me? Okay, I get that. Sometimes I lose sight of the truth too. Sometimes I forget that God, in his infinite mercy and grace, will sustain me and be more than enough. Sometimes I forget that even though I fall short, he will alway and ever be enough for me. When I feel like a failure he reminds me this isn’t about if I fail or succeed, it’s about trusting him and walking in his ways.
You won’t feel enough just because you spend 15 minutes of quiet time reading your Bible. You won’t feel enough because you work out or wear a size 4. You won’t feel enough when you are out of debt, have money stocked away. You won’t feel enough when your kids are perfect, never flinging boogers at dinner guests.
You are enough when you find your life in the fullness of God.
Dallas Willard says,
“You must arrange your days so that you are experiencing total contentment, joy, and confidence in your everyday life with God– that and that alone is what make a soul healthy.”
You find out and live like you are enough when you find contentment in the experience and life in the fullness of God. The fullness of his peace, patience, mercy, grace and truth are available but it’s when we believe it that things really begin to change.
If you’ve felt down and out, worn and weary, I want you to know you are enough. If you feel like you get stuck in the same ruts of life hear me when I say, you are enough because Christ is enough. If you feel like good things will never happen, the dream job will never be within reach, the money will never be there, or the man of your dreams will never walk into your life- remember you aren’t alone in this. Your steps are ordered.
Too often we want to get to the good part, the good stuff. We don’t want to need God. Yet, it is the nature of our soul to need. We want to figure it out on our own.
John Ortberg says,
“The unlimited neediness of the soul matches the unlimited grace of God. This is very good news that we sometimes turn bad by letting our soul’s neediness point us to something other than God: money, power, career, hidden desires, substances. Our soul’s problem is not our neediness, but it’s fallenness. Instead of allowing our soul’s need to serve as a pointer to God, we let it point us other sources of ultimate devotion. It’s idolatry.”
When we give into our neediness we find his presence. Lean into it, don’t deny it’s existence or belittle its role. Your need for God is the ticket to being enough in God. He can do that, it’s his jam.
Do you every feel this way? For me, it comes in waves. The same answer to my troubled soul is necessary every time. The answer that Jesus is enough for me. Everything my soul will ever hunger and need is found in the death and resurrection of Jesus.
I pray this resonates with you, dear reader. I pray you will be overcome by the love and grace of Jesus. I pray you will lay down striving and rushing to receive his pace and ways.
A thousand blessings,
Tiffany
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