Is God Enough?

"My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness." (2 Cor. 12:9)

Paul declares the sufficiency of God in his life when he notes that three times he prayed that God would remove the thorn in his flesh, and God chose not to answer what he had asked. Paul declares that he would boast in his wekaness because God would get the glory.

These are not sentimental words. He says, "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." What do you say? Does everything have to go your way for you to praise the Lord, or can you rejoice in the difficult circumstances that come your way?

Consider Job. When life fell apart, he said, "The Lord gives, and the Lord takes away, blessed be the name of the Lord." Consider Jacob. It is the night before he anticipates a reunion with his brother Esau, and he was afraid. But in the difficulty of hard circumstances closing in on him, he was able to lay hold of God in a way that he never had before. Over and over in the Bible, we discover that it is in the difficulties of life that people discover God's sufficiency.

Is God enough in your life today? Can you give thanks for the difficulties that come, honestly? Are you content to know Him better? Can you say, no matter what, "Blessed be the name of the Lord?"