ORIGINALLY POSTED: December 18, 2009
Adequate - not even a big word, but so much meaning. So much emotion. So many lies.
Satan has been telling me that I'm not adequate, not worthy, not capable of doing ministry on campus here at Mount Union or anywhere that I will go as a staff person. He tells me that I've failed, that everything I touch is poisoned, doomed for a miserable defeat. Satan tells me that the women I work with don't gain from God's wisdom through me, they don't need me and would be better off with someone else. He tells me that I'm not worthy of love, from Jesus, others, or my husband. Satan tells me that I'm not adequate, and I believe him.
Jesus tells me that I am his. That I have been bought with a price and an a treasured possession. Jesus tells me that he has placed me here for such a time as this. He tells me that everything I touch, if I am walking with him, he will bless. Jesus tells me that the women I work with will grow in their own time, and that is not an indicator of my successfulness or relationship with Him. Jesus says that I am so worthy of love he left heaven and hung on a cross to prove it to me. He says I am worthy enough of his love that He pursues me each and every day, sometimes through my husband. Jesus tells me I'm adequate....why is it harder to believe him?
2 Corinthians 3:5 says, "Not that we are competent in ourselves to claim anything for ourselves, but our competence comes from God." We all have feelings of inadequacy and I would challenge you that if you do feel completely adequate, you may not be doing all that God wants you to be doing. The point is however that even though we feel inadequate and unworthy, Paul tells us that we are adequate through Christ! We are made competent through him and the grace he has given us!
So challenge to myself and those who are reading....claim your adequacy through Christ this week, step out into situations in which you must depend on his strength pouring out in your weakness and see how he proves himself to you!
Adequate - not even a big word, but so much meaning. So much emotion. So many lies.
Satan has been telling me that I'm not adequate, not worthy, not capable of doing ministry on campus here at Mount Union or anywhere that I will go as a staff person. He tells me that I've failed, that everything I touch is poisoned, doomed for a miserable defeat. Satan tells me that the women I work with don't gain from God's wisdom through me, they don't need me and would be better off with someone else. He tells me that I'm not worthy of love, from Jesus, others, or my husband. Satan tells me that I'm not adequate, and I believe him.
Jesus tells me that I am his. That I have been bought with a price and an a treasured possession. Jesus tells me that he has placed me here for such a time as this. He tells me that everything I touch, if I am walking with him, he will bless. Jesus tells me that the women I work with will grow in their own time, and that is not an indicator of my successfulness or relationship with Him. Jesus says that I am so worthy of love he left heaven and hung on a cross to prove it to me. He says I am worthy enough of his love that He pursues me each and every day, sometimes through my husband. Jesus tells me I'm adequate....why is it harder to believe him?
2 Corinthians 3:5 says, "Not that we are competent in ourselves to claim anything for ourselves, but our competence comes from God." We all have feelings of inadequacy and I would challenge you that if you do feel completely adequate, you may not be doing all that God wants you to be doing. The point is however that even though we feel inadequate and unworthy, Paul tells us that we are adequate through Christ! We are made competent through him and the grace he has given us!
So challenge to myself and those who are reading....claim your adequacy through Christ this week, step out into situations in which you must depend on his strength pouring out in your weakness and see how he proves himself to you!
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