Not Enough

Not Enough

“Here hold my Pepsi, and watch this. No I got it. Well actually I don’t ………… help.” Ever experience this chain of events? It looked heavy but you were sure you could handle it. When you were younger you could….. . Or maybe some circumstance or situation comes into your life, and you are sure you can deal with it. You don’t need any help and you are sure you got it handled until you don’t.

As humans we seem to want to demonstrate our competence even when we have no idea what we are doing. Like the two year old who is throwing a fit because they want to tie their shoes but they don’t know how, we often live our lives trying to handle it, what ever “it” happens to be. Learning dependence is difficult when what we want is independence. Ultimately, we must learn we are not enough.

You see no matter how good we become. No matter how strong, or how disciplined we are, it is impossible to reach a standard that is even close to the Holiness of God. Yet we are called to be like Him in His holiness. God realizes we will never achieve the standard, however it is still the standard. What gives? Why would he call us to be something He knows we can never achieve?

 Evil cannot be in the presence of God and eventually he destroys it all. There is only one solution to our miserable and self-inflicted conundrum. He must do it for us.   We have to learn what Paul learned, “ My grace is sufficient for you”

 Come learn how we scribblers can rely on the grace of our Savior.

See you at church,

Pastor Chris