SUFFICIENT
was at a prayer meeting this year, where Ps Audrey encouraged us to get prostrate and ask God if there were any idols in our lives. As I lay there, face down to the carpet, there was a quick response…”Perfection.”
I came to Christ 16 years ago with a bursting suitcase of issues. I won’t use up my word count listing them here, but by God’s grace, over the years, I have experienced freedom I know I would not have found elsewhere. And because of this I am so passionate about others finding this freedom in Christ.
But
I also have such a deep desire to be perfect. The well-balanced, wise woman. The amazing wife, mum and employee. And therefore I desire God’s healing hand to set me free of all my sin, so I can be this perfect person. I was pursuing perfectionism and not Him anymore. I wanted to be self-righteous. I was a Pentecostal version of a Pharisee. I’d missed the point. I’d missed Jesus even though He was right in front of me performing miracles!
“My grace is sufficient for you.”
10 years ago God whispered this sentence to me three times. It was a key part of Him healing me of depression (that’s a story for another day). But now those words sing in my heart!
It is SUFFICIENT!!!
I don’t have to work so hard to be good enough for God. I never was and never will be good enough. He loves me and His love is not conditional.
I will make mistakes, little and big – but He will still choose me as His vessel.
And the pain that my sin causes…He will use for His glory and goodness when I confess and repent, because “[HIS] power is made perfect in weakness.”
So, let God be the perfect one for you. Live a life fully surrendered to Him. Confess your sin, stop striving and rest in the sufficiency of His grace.
God bless,