Complete Sufficiency

I have my weaknesses and limitations, and I’m growing older much more rapidly than I like to consider. Each morning, I open my medicine box and consume an assortment of prescription doses to help provide what my body needs to maintain a reasonable portion of health. Each formula has something that I need, but no one source is enough to provide all that I need. How thankful I am that in my relationship with the living God, I can truly say that He alone is sufficient for my every need. I never have to ask, “Is God enough?” The following Scriptures show the answer to that question, which many may be seeking.

“The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want” (Psalm 23:1). The shepherd always supplies every need for his flock. I am part of Christ’s flock, and He will supply in some way or another all I could possibly need. Most of us, myself included, have known good times and bad, prosperity and perhaps want, but thanks to the God who meets our needs, I have never been hungry or begging bread.

We are not sufficient in ourselves to claim anything as coming from us, but our sufficiency is from God. We all work with heart, hand, mind and body to provide the needs for ourselves and for our families. We toil diligently to provide food, raiment, shelter and safety for ourselves and for our children, but we do not do this alone. Scripture says “…but our sufficiency is from God” (2 Corinthians 3:5). We must trust God to be our full and complete sufficiency.

“I give thanks to my God always for you because of the grace of God that was given in Christ Jesus, that in every way you were enriched in Him in all speech and knowledge” (1 Corinthians 1:4-5). God will provide not only the needs of the body, but speech and knowledge, too. God provides us the ability to know, to converse and to commune with Him. The grace of God given in Christ Jesus allows us to discern from where we came, where we are going and what we are to do while we live our lives, no matter how long that may be. Our task while here is to serve Him and to be grateful for all the riches of life itself with which God has so generously blessed us

“And my God will supply every need of yours according to His riches in glory in Christ Jesus. To our God and Father be glory forever and ever. Amen” (Philippians 4:19-20). Be assured that from His riches in glory in Christ Jesus for whatever you need, God will surely provide to His faithful and obedient children. 

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