God is Enough
I keep coming across this same thing – no, that’s not accurate – I keep crashing into the same thing, and it is “God is Enough”. That says so much but can, and often does, speak so little. Here is my best way to say it;
Imagine everything you ever feared could happen already did happen – Everything! At this point Jesus Christ is still enough and he still loves you and still cares. We just don’t get this! We identify with the Thing we want, the Thing we want to change, someThing is wrong, someThing is bad, someThing we are worried about surfaces and we seek God, and we seek him because of and for that Thing. For many, if God doesn’t address and heal or solve that thing then God isn’t God, for many life becomes waiting on God to heal or solve that Thing, God is God but his timing is just different than theirs. I am crashing again and again into the thought, the principle that God is enough, regardless. Regardless of the Thing and regardless of noThing, regardless of anyThing, Jesus Christ is Lord, he is God.
This can feel like a lack of trust or faith can’t it. I mean if God is God and I ask and believe for some Thing, then he will is faithful, right? I just have to have enough faith, be patient. But here we are again going to the Thing and not to HIM.
Here is what really nailed me on this – Hebrews 11 “The Faith hall of fame”, here is where God brags on some who have had “faith” throughout time
35 Women received their dead raised to life again. Others were tortured, not accepting deliverance, that they might obtain a better resurrection. 36 Still others had trial of mockings and scourgings, yes, and of chains and imprisonment. 37 They were stoned, they were sawn in two, were tempted, were slain with the sword. They wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins, being destitute, afflicted, tormented—
What gets me here is those who had dead raised to life are in the same place as those who died, those who got the Thing they wanted are in the same place as those who got no Thing, and in God’s description, there is no difference, both are bragged on as having faith. The common component in these IS faith. So, faith cannot be trusting God for some Thing to happen. If we can go here we can quit wasting any energy in “why did he allow this”, why did he do this or that Thing. We can quit wasting energy on “when will God do this Thing?”
My God, Jesus Christ is enough whether the Thing I hope for happens or the Thing I fear happens, whether the Thing is better than both or worse than both. If my faith is “in Jesus” then the Thing is irrelevant. It is not about the circumstance or thing, Jesus is enough regardless!