#jesusisenough

This hashtag has been with me for a couple of months now and remains my confession and focus heading into the new year.  I know it’s cliché to say that this is the answer to every question, circumstance, and predicament in our lives, but does that make it any less true?  Truth is, my understanding and acceptance of this hashtag or phrase is vital to the quality of life I will have.  Let me introduce a few common scenarios that we all seem to face on a consistent basis.

I can’t afford that right now… #jesusisenough.  When will this happen in my life? #jesusisenough.  I can’t believe I messed up again… #jesusisenough.  My child can’t seem to get over this sickness… #jesusisenough.  I don’t know what I’m supposed to do with my life… #jesusisenough.

This list can go on and on with a variety of questions and frustrations.  The resolution never changes.  JESUS IS ENOUGH.  We need to come to a point when we stop asking questions and voicing frustrations, but rather answer those very thoughts with a declaration of Jesus in our life.  The words we speak are vital to the life we see in front of us.  Proverbs tells us that life and death is in the power of our tongue, and in James we find out that our words steer our lives.

A powerful truth I heard from the “Jesus Is” project by Judah Smith has stuck with me like glue.  It was simply that our greatest challenge isn’t our discipline, devotion or focus; our greatest challenge is believing the gospel!  I’m encouraged that my resolution this year doesn’t have to be how I can be more disciplined, focused or devoted but that I can simply believe that Jesus is enough and experience all that He is in His fullness.  Romans 8:32 is one of my favorite scriptures and it reads like this in The Message:  If God didn’t hesitate to put everything on the line for us, embracing our condition and exposing himself to the worst by sending his own Son, is there anything else he wouldn’t gladly and freely do for us?   What do you need?  

God already risked all that He had when He sent Jesus, so would He hold anything else back that would add to the full lives that Jesus came to give us?  No!  In this, we can see that Jesus is enough because God has nothing left to hold back since He’s already given His very best.