2 Corinthains 12:8
"My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness."
I'm really meditating on 2 Corinthians 12. Is God's grace really sufficient for me? I mean, I know it is. But do I live it? In the every day turnings that is life, do I live out what I believe. Sure, His grace is sufficient. I mean, mentally. But practically?
Enough. Adequate. Plenty. Ample. Satisfactory.
- When the kids are being kids and getting on my last nerve, do I live out that God's grace is all I need?
- When I go to a buffet and have to gorge myself so that I can't breathe, is the shalom of Christ plenty?
- When I'm up at 3 in the morning dealing with cramps, do I proclaim God's grace?
- If I bite into one of my favorite foods and it tastes like a mouth full of quarters, am I okay with that?
- Every time someone cuts me off in traffic or merges too late or doesn't use a signal or drives to slow/fast, is the grace of Christ being shown in my actions?
- When the bills come due and I'm running a bit short and I have the debate "Take it from my tithe or not?", is grace real to me?
"Breathe of Dawn" wrote this poem that was just too good to pass up.
At times I cannot even bear
The beauty that is you
Words are far beyond my grasp -
I smile
At their inadequacy.
How little words convey
Of what is real.
What is real? I remember Danny Curry and I had this conversation in like 1999. Stellar debates about 'real' and 'not real'. We concluded the only 'real' things in life are those that relate to God and Jesus. So how I deal with God's grace, how I deal with being weak and Him strong...that is real. And that is beauty. That is grace.
May we all believe and live out God's grace and its suffiency. May I be like my professor at JBC that ended every prayer with, "In Jesus' name, who Alone is my Suffiency." May Christ be sufficient in the good and the bad. In our words. In our actions. In all that is real. Amen.
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