If you were
to ask people who know me, they would say: Debi
says God is enough! Trusting in God
is the foundation of my life.
Something
you may not know about me is that I have a deep need to be right. Recently I’ve been faced with a problem that
in my mind has a right answer. When I am
right, I assume God will back me up! Not
in this case. Some very godly people
asked me to go along with what wasn’t right in my mind. They didn’t ask me to do something wrong they
just asked me to put love before justice, and my right solution was to put
justice before love. (Um-that should
have been the first clue that I wasn’t as right as I thought I was!)
Is God
enough? I think I’m enough. I was fully committed to my plan. I didn’t want to do it another way. I understood that the other way wasn’t a
wrong way. I could grasp the rationale
for doing it that way. It was definitely
the more humble and loving way. The
problem was—it wasn’t my way.
God in His
great love and compassion for me did not let me go my own way without
challenging me over and over. The Holy
Spirit kept reminding me that godly people were asking me to respond in another
way.
Why am I so
committed to my own way? I believe that
I am enough. I believe that I could
convince others that I am enough and that my wisdom is enough. I was convinced that I could straighten out
this situation.
Either I
believe God is enough or I believe I am enough.
God is enough, but it doesn’t
look like He is enough when you focus on what is seen.
In John 6:5-9 Jesus has a
conversation with His disciples.
When
Jesus looked up and saw a great crowd coming toward him, he said to Philip, Where shall we buy bread for these people
to eat? He asked this only
to test him, for he already had in mind what he was going to do. Philip answered him, It would take
more than half a year’s wages to buy enough bread for each one to have a bite!
Another of his disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother, spoke up, Here is a boy with five small barley loaves and two small fish, but
how far will they go among so many?
It is
rarely obvious when God is enough. Like
Philip, I say to God, what you are asking me to do is irrational. I need to be like Andrew and see what I do
have. What I can see is that godly
people are asking me to do something they feel led by God to direct. I need to take what I see and give it to
Jesus so He can take it and break it then pray over it and ask God to be enough
for every person involved.
Yes, God is
enough. Why do I forget?
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