Enough
Being enough is so difficult because we are always comparing ourselves to what is enough. In today’s world we live with an attitude as if nothing ever seems like it is enough. We have a constant flood of social media, news, and life around us saying, that was good, but they did it better. For me I have spent my life trying to be good enough. Being in the entertainment industry, it was a daily battle of never settling for good, you had to be better. I did a Facebook post this past Friday and with each comment there was that underlying theme, of not quite feeling worthy. That somehow if we did more, then we would achieve that desired bliss of enough. As one of my friends so eloquently pointed out a lack of perception. When we are basing our belief system on what we can do, we will always come up short.
Another person really dug in when she wrote about what happens when we forget about the why we are enough. Jesus. It’s because of what He did that qualifies us. How many times instead of reaching out, and allowing others to pour into us, we pull back and proclaim, “I’ve got this,” but we don’t. It’s in the acknowledgement that we don’t actually have it. We see that we are in need and allow ourselves to be taken care of. The first act of believing that we’re enough, is receiving Jesus and letting Him be.
No greater love qualifies us than God sending His Son and saying because of Him we are enough. The truth that He did it for me, He did it for you, simply because He loves should be the beginning of our understanding of enough. There is no greater act of saying you are all I want, then someone laying down their life for us. Jesus took every lie, every feeling of lack, and destroyed it on the cross and in turn gave us His righteousness. We didn’t have to be the best, or at our peak performance, He choose us and said, “You are more than enough.”
I love how still another person put it, “taking a moment to REMEMBER the truer truth” isn’t that what this is about. That moment. When heaven decided to allow its King to step off His throne and come after us. No greater act of saying to someone, you are enough.
