Warning: Contains Unpopular Opinion

Hello there!

It's me! Here to tell you that

I am not enough.

Hallelujah, I'm not enough.

It's not an excuse, nor is it a weight...it's a relief and a burden lifted, and warrants my service and praise.

I must strive to be more, surely-

More like Jesus

More loving

More set apart

More sold out for the Gospel

But I can never be "enough"; this was our plight from the beginning.

This was why Jesus came to earth and offered Himself as the sinless sacrifice for our sins. Because I wasn't enough, and I needed Him. I DO need Him. Even in striving to be more I will need God's help every moment.

If we had to be enough, we would spend our every waking moment in our attempts and the truth of the Gospel- salvation through grace, not works- would never be shared (and we wouldn't believe it ourselves); it wouldn't even be true for we would have to work to be enough to be saved! and since truth is truth and this claim isn't part of it, this claim is merely a crutch.

To concern myself and exert my energy on being enough when I can never hope to be, is to take my time away from becoming more for Him and sharing His love with others, and to take my focus away from how He was more than enough and still is today.

It should never matter to me that I be enough, but that He is, and that I honour Him for it and tell others how HE was enough for me, not vice versa.

To say I am enough is to discount His work on the cross, for it says that now that He has taken care of the hard part I can handle the living part and meeting His expectations on my own.

To believe that I am enough is to believe a lie.

We ought to pray that our lives are a testimony of God's goodness and of His ability to be more than enough for me when I come short- which I cannot help but do, for I have sinned, and any one sin is sufficient to keep me from reaching the mark, but opens the door for me to acknowledge my lack and accept Jesus' free gift of salvation and His grace which enables me to ever strive to be more, that He might be glorified in my life.

We will start to see a change in our outlook and the impact of our revolution when we start saying "enough about me; rather, He is enough."