She listened to the words, “You are more than enough for me…” guilt overtaking her worship. How can I say that right now, when all I can see is the struggles involved? She cried out in the stillness of where she sat.
Have you ever felt like you just couldn’t sing the words of a worship song and mean them, and when that truth sunk into your soul, it stopped you? Thanks for joining us for Wednesday’s Word with Kim-Evinda and Trench Classes United. To worship God with our whole heart, our whole mind is His will for us but how do we do that amid trials, tribulations, and tears?
The words of that worship song stayed with her over the next several days, haunting her with the realization that He didn’t seem to be enough for her. There were all these unanswered questions, still so much struggle. What am I missing, Abba? What am I not getting?” She dared to ask. She picked up her Bible to begin that day’s Bible study in John.
“Paul states in Colossians 2:10 that we are complete in Christ. Jesus alone is all sufficient and entirely adequate to meet our every need”!!!!!!
She looked up, knowing with all her being that He was pursuing her, still, in this ministry He had called her to and would go to great lengths to be all she needed, to not leave her wandering and wondering in the wilderness, reminding her that it was and is His Spirit that would draw others and that she was just the vessel to be utilized by being emptied of her desire to be known, recognized and accepted.
She read the few verses that followed that emphatic statement of Christ being enough and then as the study asked, she began to record all the ways that Christ is enough, for her…and you.
Verse 11 reminded her that a spiritual surgery of her heart had been performed, a heart circumcision that helps her to put off the flesh that craved acceptance and attention. Verse 12 reminded her that because she had been baptized, she had put to death and buried the old sin nature and had been given new resurrected life when she came up out of the water. “Maybe I should do that one again,” she wondered aloud.
Verse 13 reminded her that because her sins have been and will continue to be forgiven upon the asking, that she was made alive. And verse 14 reminded her that she was saved from the failure of the law, able to embrace New Covenant life; that because of the price that Jesus already paid, she lived by grace, not a bunch of do’s and don’ts.
She closed her study. His timing was a reminder that wrapped around her, holding her close to Him, and in those moments, she could sing, “You are Enough.”
Friend, if you are going through something that prevents you from worshiping with a true heart, meaning what you say, be still, ask Him to reveal the why to you; allow Him to minister to you and be just enough, all that you need. He always honors this sacrifice.
Love,
Kim-Evinda
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