The realism of how his statement is so true. Even in my own life. Is He enough? Will I be strong enough in those deep darkest moments to say that He is enough. What about my dreams? I'm not just talking about owning a SUV and living a pretty house with a white picket fence. What if my dreams, even if they are His, don't come to pass. What if? Will He be enough still? What if I never marry, if i never have kids, if i never get to see the places my heart longs to go to, what if i do get those things and they are taken from me? Will He be enough in those moments, in those times?
To sit and realize, I have one life to live, and if everything doesn't go as planned. If i don't get to see the seven wonders of the world, if i don't get a wedding day, if i don't get coffee with my husband when i'm 65, if i don't get to hold my new born baby, if i don't get to dress up my daughters for their proms and see my sons play sports, write books, and have children of their own. If I don't get to help train and disciple hundreds or even thousands of people to know God more and to love God more. My heart breaks just thinking these things, but what about Hebrews 11. When all those men and women who probably had similar dreams of their own that were probably never fulfilled. There was a greater promise, a greater fulfillment. God was enough for them. more than enough.
I pray that no matter what may come in my future, weather God fulfills the longing and desires and passions in my heart, or in fact that as John Piper says that I would be marked by suffering and that none of those things would come to pass so that in that i might show the world and the people around me that He is MOST glorified when I am MOST satisfied in Him. My flesh and my heart may fail, but He is my strength and my portion ....FOREVER. So be it!
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