He is Sufficient

I would love to share the things I read. Last December, I spent most of time on books. One of them is Encouragement for Life- Words of hope and inspiration by Charles R. Swindoll. I’d jot down some of the important points from the book and I think it is nice to be shared. 

One of them is, the encouragement for self-doubt and insecurity. Everyone had been in that phase, I mean, doubting one ’s self and feeling insecure.  But what did the writer said? We are never closer to God than when trials come upon us.

Inadequacy. To be human is to feel inadequate..especially in glorifying Him. We are inadequate, incapable of glorifying God, unable to do His work in our own strength. But never forget, we have been bought with a price and the price paid was unimaginably high – the blood of Christ – and how we belong to Him. He owns us and this means, He have His own specific plan for each and everyone of us, and that He is working on us in His very own way. In our weaknesses, inadequacy, He will shine. He'll use them all for His glory. We know now, feeling inadequate, why He allows this feeling to have some space in us..so that it forces us to fully rely on Him, giving us the strength. To not run away. We are where we are now because He needs us to demonstrate His power. In our inadequacy, His power is made real...if we allow Him to take the wheel.

“My power is sufficient for you, for power is perfected in weakness.” ~ 2 Cor 12:9 ~

So each time you feel insecure or beginning to have a doubt, remember, this is what He really wanted to say,

“My daughter, I know what I am doing. I know the pain of your heart right now. I know you feel overwhelmed, overloaded, pressed down. But believe me, I am touched with your situation and I have a plan. I am working out the details of your deliverance even now. Trust me!”

And..

“I want you to be you. I made you the way you are now because I know you better. Your stories, your life, the obstacles that lay ahead you. All you have now are going to fit and help you. Just be you.”

And also..

“You are not in the hands of blind fate! You are in My hands.”

Never doubt yourself. Remember the lines in Amos 7:14-15.

“I am not a prophet, nor am I the son of prophet; for I am a herdsman and a grower of sycamore figs. But the Lord took me from following the flock and the Lord said to me, ‘go prophesy to my people Israel.” ~Amos 7:14-15~

No matter who we are, how poor and weak we are, He is the one holding all the plan.