Tagged: enough

Not that we are sufficient in ourselves to claim anything as coming from us, but our sufficiency is from God.  2 Corinthians 3:5 Sufficient: enough, adequate, plenty of, ample, abundant.  Antonyms: insufficient, inadequate. Just one search on Amazon books returned 393 results for the word enough. Sufficient yielded over 10,000. We have an obsessive-compulsive relationship with the need to be enough. The need to be sufficient nags at us until we do something about it. Then it nags again. Then we strive again. Then it nags. Then we quit. Or run faster, work harder, sleep less.  Some of us believe we are too much. We try to squeeze our big love, our big personalities, our big dreams down to fit the enough boxes everyone carries around. Some of us think we are… Read More

Jesus heard that they had cast him out, and having found him he said, “Do you believe in the Son of Man?” He answered, “And who is he, sir, that I may believe in him?” Jesus said to him, “You have seen him and it is he who is speaking to you.” He said, “Lord, I believe,” and he worshiped him. (John 9:35-38) Jesus was comfortable in the company of outcasts. For so long I skipped right over the heart-stopping, radical action of this passage. I barely paused to notice. Okay, so Jesus went after an outcast. He was Jesus, after all, and that’s what He did. It was part of his Messiah job description. Then I began to live and work among the outcast… Read More