Discovering Enoughness In The Letting Go
I hope you have the courage to start again.
One ending is often a new beginning – a new season, a new dream, or perhaps a new perspective. On the ending side, it can feel like a failure, like maybe you weren’t enough; but maybe there’s something to be said for never being enough to do it all, be it all, have it all.
The title will never be enough. The finances will never be enough. The “stuff” will never be enough. Even the relationships with other people will never be enough, because they were never designed to be enough. This desire for more will always disappoint because we often look for meaning and enoughness in the things rather than the Creator and the Giver of those things. The enoughness we deeply desire will only be found in relationship with the Creator Himself. Through love, He made me enough in His eyes because of grace, forgiveness, and redemption. When I find my enoughness in His love, I can be oaky knowing I’ll never be enough for anyone else. I was never created to be enough because only Jesus will ever be enough to fill the depth of one’s soul.
But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you. – Matthew 6:33
When we come into relationship with the Creator, we find meaning and value and enoughness. Releasing my need to be enough brings a new freedom to living. To really personalize this, it means that when I release my need to be enough for someone, I release them to find their enoughness in Jesus, AND I release myself to live fully into my purpose without hesitation of my enoughness for others. When I release the need to be enough, I allow God space to come and work through my life to call others to His love and light.
Ephesians 1:7-12 put this concept so concisely and The Message puts it so simply – “Because of the sacrifice of the Messiah, his blood poured out on the altar of the Cross, we’re a free people – free of penalties and punishments chalked up by all our misdeeds. And not just barely free, either. Abundantly free! He thought of everything, provided for everything we could possibly need, letting us in on the plans he took delight in making. He set it all out before us in Christ, a long-range plan in which everything would be brought together and summed up in him, everything in deepest heaven, everything on planet earth. It’s in Christ that we find out who we are and what we are living for. Long before we first heard of Christ and got our hopes up, he had his eye on us, had designs on us for glorious living, part of the overall purpose he is working out in everything and everyone.”
I think that often in our quest for enoughness, we tend to look for meaning and value in things and titles rather than the Giver of those things. But in gaining a new possession or new title we still feel the need to be more, have more. Maybe that search for enoughness, that unsettled feeling inside, is a reflection of hope that there is something more, something deeper to life. It is my prayer that we find that peace and that enoughness in God.
I have this phrase written in the margin of my Bible in the book of Ecclesiastes – Life is best viewed in light of eternity. It all matters. Know with certainty the here and now counts for everything and counts forever. Whatever season you find yourself in, live with confidence and purpose. The titles, the things, the relationship status is not the source of your identity, neither is it a reflection of your worth or value. The work you do matters to God, don’t discount the unseen, the unadvertised, the unspoken. The work, the service, the action gives evidence to the world that our faith is real and sincere and life changing. You are changing lives everyday. Show up and show Jesus.
For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven. – Ecclesiastes 3:1
-xo
