He is Sufficient. 

Posted on August 1, 2018 by America's Keswick in Victory Call

When I was a young adult, one of my favorite things was to accompany my Dad to speaking engagements. On one such occasion, we drove to a large church in North Jersey, where Dad proceeded to give one of the best sermons I ever heard him preach. The theme was that God is sufficient for whatever need or situation we face. He went through Scripture and talked about many situations faced by those in the Bible, always coming back to the phrase, “He is sufficient.” After Dad finished his very challenging and moving sermon, one of the elders went to the pulpit to close the meeting.  It was clear that he had not understood the sermon’s intent at all, because he made the statement before closing in prayer, “God is more than sufficient for your needs.”

The dictionary defines the word sufficient this way: “adequate for the purpose; enough.” It may be tempting to think of sufficient as meaning “barely enough” but that is not the intent of Paul when he writes: “And God is able to make all grace abound to you, so that having all sufficiency in all things at all times, you may abound in every good work (II Corinthians 9:8).”  Notice the richness of the descriptions: all grace, all sufficiency in all things at all times, abound in every good work. Father is not a miser, doling out barely enough to help us and only after we beg and beg for help. His grace and mercy and provision are sufficient – they are adequate for the purpose; they are enough.

In II Corinthians 12:9, Paul writes, “But He said to me, ‘My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.’ Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me. For the sake of Christ, then, I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities. For when I am weak, then I am strong.”

I don’t have to be strong, as His grace is sufficient. It is adequate. It is enough. It covers all my needs, all my failings, all my pain. There is nothing that can happen to me that is not under the umbrella of His sufficiency. As my husband Joe often says, our weakness is just another opportunity to watch God show up and show off! He is sufficient.

Written by Cherri Raws Freeman: Cherri Raws Freeman is the author of the book Beside Still Waters: Discovering Peace in the Midst of Your Child’s Addiction. She and her husband Joe, a graduate of the Colony of Mercy, founded Love Them to Life, a support ministry for mothers of addicts. Cherri is  a graduate of Wheaton College and the mother of 5 adult children, 2 of which struggled with addiction issues.

The Daily Bible Reading: Isaiah 64-66 |You can download our 2018 Daily Bible Reading Plan by clicking here

Daily Quote: We have no sufficient strength of our own. All our sufficiency is of God. We should stir up ourselves to resist temptations in a reliance upon God’s all-sufficiency and the omnipotence of his might.”– Matthew Henry

This Week’s Verse to Memorize:

When a wicked man dies, his expectation will perish, And the hope of the unjust perishes. Proverbs 11:7