He is Enough

He Is Enough

Scripture Reading: Psalm 103

Looking back over life, I find I have many regrets. I regret the things I have left undone. I grieve also. I sorrow over words that flew off my tongue that should have never been thought, let alone spoken. The knowledge that my life is the story I have “written with a pen of iron” (Jeremiah 17:1), and that my history is chiseled into the cold, hard granite of days past is burdensome. Only a saving God who can remove our sins and put them away “as far as the east is from the west” (Psalm 103:12), and “cast our sins into the depths of the sea” (Micah 7:19) is sufficient for this.

Looking around at the present moment, at the tasks that await me, the responsibilities I bear to family, friends, my community, and my fellow believers; I find myself asking with Paul, “who is sufficient for these things?” (2 Corinthians 2:16). I am but dust. Only a shepherding God who “will never leave us nor forsake us” (Hebrews 13:5) is sufficient for this present life.

I also wonder about tomorrow. The question, “what if?” haunts and taunts me. My heart is fertile ground for the seeds of uncertainty. Fear and anxiety sprout there too and produce the rotten fruit of unbelief. Only a sovereign God, One who is not only the beginning, but also the end, One who is Omega as well as Alpha, is sufficient for the future.

Looking up, I see Jesus. And in Him I see a saving, shepherding, sovereign God, and I realize He is sufficient for all things. He is enough, more than enough for my past, my present and my future. So, I rest in Him.