I Am Not Enough

    I was looking through an old notebook and found this entry dated August 15, 2019. It is still relevant to me today, so I thought I'd share and also add a few thoughts to it. Here goes...

    I am not enough. I'm not enough as a mother. I'm not enough as a wife. I'm not enough as a friend. Substitute any word in the blank and still I am not enough. I've realized that I cannot be the person God created me to be on my own. I am not enough. I need and I must have God at the center of it all. When I try to be the mom, wife, daughter, and person I need to be on my own, I fail. 

    On my own, without a relationship with Christ, I fail. I never measure up. I make a mess of things. I blow up over something petty. I make the situation worse. But with God at the focus, I can do all things.

Philippians 4:13

"I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me."

How can I do all things? Through Christ. 

Romans 8:37

"Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us."

    

I am more than a conqueror, how? Through God.

    

    Galations 6:3

"For if a man think himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceiveth himself."

    I refuse to embrace the lie that I am okay the way that I am! I am not. I fell for that lie before and it left me sitting comfortable and complacent on a church pew. I was lukewarm, shallow, to afraid to go deeper. That is not happening again. That is why it is important to have a relationship with God. I can communicate with Him through prayer and even hear His voice audibly and through His Word. If I take the time to pray, read the Bible, establish a relationship with Him, and ask Him for help and strength, He will help me be the person I need to be. His Word says it, and I believe it! 

    I am a work in progress. I'm still being refined, molded, and shaped into the person God created me to be. And if I want to become that person, I need to remember that I am not enough.