“Jesus is Enough”

For the last few weeks it has been a blur for me. I have been working a lot and also trying to maintain all the goals established the first of the year. I must confess I have blown a few, but I have stayed steady with others; as I am sure some of you would agree. I say that to share with you an event that happened this week. I finally got the opportunity to get my hair cut, although it was nice to receive some monetary gain for my long hair by those having compassion on me and throwing a few bucks my way thinking I was in need but couldn’t find a sign. But when I finally made it to the shop that cuts my hair I entered into a conversation that seems to be going on around our community and I would say in our country; that is the state of our economy and the state of our world. One comment that was made was that “God would never put more on a person than they can handle.” Another statement was “God blesses those that bless Him.” Now I know there are some truths to these statements and I know where these statements come but many times they are sadly misused. When asked what I thought as a preacher I kindly shared with them the life of John the Baptist, Peter, Job, and Paul. Although they did exactly what was asked of them by God, their life on this earth would not be what we would consider a blessing in our life time. Think about it everything taken away, beaten, imprisoned, stoned, left for dead, ship wrecked, crucified, or beheaded. To me that doesn’t sound like a blessing, or more than they could handle. But I did let them know as I would like to say to you, what they did experience and what they did learned is that “Jesus is Enough” No matter what comes our way Jesus is enough, no matter what life, or the economy, or our government throws our way Jesus is and will be enough. You have to ask yourself and then answer do you believe that. Because that is the only hope we have and that hope will carry you into eternity. What these men had in common was that they were looking and longing for a new day, a day when all things will be restored to what God intended. A day I long for as well and I believe you do too.