Can I be transparent with you? I really do not have it all together all the time. Sometimes, I tend to be reactive to my circumstance instead of responsive to God’s quickening. I open my mouth and give voice to doubt when I should stay silent. I value comfort far more than I should. But even with all my faults and frailties, the way that the Lord responds to me is just all out of proportion.
I mean, I hide myself in my prayer closet (and by that, I mean that I get on my face in my bedroom floor) and the Lord comes into the room with His splendor and glory! He meets me there and shakes my world like He did Sinai’s rugged summit for Moses. God, majestic and powerful, comes to fellowship with ME in my frailty. His response to my weak display of love is all out of proportion!
Truthfully, God responds to me that way consistently. I ask what I should do about a situation, and He floods my world with golden light. When I am overwhelmed by life and cry out that I am in over my head, He strolls out on the stormy sea in which I am sinking and pulls me out of the waves. If I miss the mark as I am so prone to do, as soon as I humble my heart toward repentance His grace and forgiveness rush in like a flood to wash me clean. His response to me is ALWAYS crazy out of proportion!
He gives more than I deserve. He does more than I expect. And I suspect that your testimony is pretty much the same–that in your frailty, the Lord is strong. In your smallness, He is immense. In your dark places, He is brilliant. It is part of Who He is. He is more.
The Apostle Paul reveals this propensity of God in Romans 5. Paul wrote that even though sin entered the world by Adam’s fall and every person born was under the power of that sin nature, God’s grace was like a tsunami wave in response- overwhelming, overflowing, enough and more than enough for all we need! What Jesus accomplished on Calvary was absolutely ENOUGH. His atonement was enough for all the sins of all humanity for all time! His blood was ENOUGH for you, Child of God!
Have you been walking under the weight of insufficiency lately? Have you felt that you just did not measure up? Have you felt like were not smart, educated, gifted, or a hundred other adjectives enough? Have you even said, “How could God ever use someone like me to reach others with the Gospel?”
The Lord does not ask for you to be perfect, or even just more than you are. No, God is not looking for perfect vessels to send. He only looks for a willing heart through which He can demonstrate His overwhelming grace and mercy. The gospel of Jesus is the good news about God reaching to the low and the broken in love. That is my story. Isn’t that yours too?
So I want to invite you to lay down any condemnation or pressure to perform. Just hold out your small hands and let the tidal wave of God’s love pour through you to the world around you. Let the people around you see the real you pointing their gaze to the real Him. He is ENOUGH!
Will you pray with me?
Father, we are astounded at You. Your love is so overwhelming. We offer our selves willingly to You even in our weakness. You are enough for us. We want to be light and salt to the world around us for Your glory.
