My life lately feels like it is swirling around the concept of sufficiency. Several of my latest blog posts have included the topic and in my Bible reading and conversations with others, there is a common theme. Think the Lord is trying to teach me something?
A couple days ago, my brother Daniel commented on my Gmail chat “status” verse, which is 2 Corinthians 3:5: “Not that we are sufficient in ourselves to claim anything as coming from us, but our sufficiency is from God.”
I told him that it is one of my favorite verses, and as I am wont to do in my love of playing with words, I turned an adjective into a noun. “He is our enoughness,” I wrote. (And spell-check goes crazy: “’Enoughness’ is not a word!” Well, maybe not technically, but it sure captures what I want to say.)
To say that God is my enoughness cannot be a glib statement. Enough carries the concept of needing nothing else. There is a satisfaction, a contentedness, a settled attitude inherent in recognizing all that we are and have comes from God. It’s a foreign concept in our fallen world.
I am not enough to fulfill my deepest and not-so-deep needs. My job is not enough. My friends are not enough. My savings account is not enough. My family is not enough. If I rest my hope even an iota on any of these things, my heart will grow restless with their lacking. I know, because I try daily in one way or another to be completed by things that never were meant to do that.
But when I recall my All-Sufficient God, I find in him my strengthcouragewisdomcomfortpatienceprovisionforgivenessjoyrest.
I find my enoughness.

Well put my sista!