Are You Enough

Are you enough?

No. We are not enough and that’s a hard concept to swallow. We are not enough. No matter what society tries to preach to us. We will never be enough… without the creator.

We are born sinners. Live in a fallen world. We are fallen. But thank the good Lord that we have a God that comes into our fallen world as we just celebrated and rescues us. His plan for salvation. His death and resurrection are what Make Us Enough. We are enough in Him. He fills all the holes and broken pieces within is. He corrects our wrongs, overcomes our shortcomings. We are enough only because of him and what he did, nothing with what we have done or can do.

The verse in the back of this card is a familiar one.. we see it often. We are fearfully and wonderfully made. And we are. We are so beautiful woven together for his glory. We are whole in him. Enough in him. And then life happens. But here’s the great part!! Someday we will be whole again, without sin, living with the Savior who made us enough in this life.

So be reminded as you wear these earrings. You are more than enough… with Him. And when society preaches, you are enough, just remember to say to yourself. No. I’m broken, but he is working within me. He’s transforming me. I am enough because of Him.

Cursing of The Fig Tree

Remember in Mark 11:12 when Jesus is walking out of a Bethany, is hungry, sees a fig tree off in a distance, walks to it to eat, finds it is barren (had no figs) and then curses it? Which we find later to have withered from the root up in verse 20.

Well, until today I found it almost a temper tantrum kind of passage. And I’m not sure why I did because our Lord and Savior wouldn’t retaliate in sin but I guess my ears and eyes weren’t ready to be opened yet.

But today he opened them.

Essentially the fig tree was false advertising. You see a fig tree only has leaves if it has figs. If it doesn’t have figs it shouldn’t have leaves.

So it was all leaves and no figs.

Jesus cursed the tree as an example to us and to Israel. He was warning to not just have the outward form, or just the appearance of having fruit but to also have fruit it self. He wasn’t cursing the tree because it didn’t have fruit but because it professed to have fruit but did not. It was all talk and not walk - all leaves and no fruit.

I also read that this is Jesus’ only destructive miracle. There were a lot of destructive miracles on the Old Testament but Jesus only had this one. So we should see this miracle with great importance. Are we all leaves and no fruit? Do we profess or give off the appearance to have fruit but really our lives are barren?

pin study for later

You are treasured

1 Peter 2:9

But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s special possession, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light.

When diving into this verse, there is a really great analogy to help us understand why we are treasured.

A museum may be filled with quite ordinary things: hats, canes, shoes, and so forth; but they may be significant because they once belonged to someone famous. God takes ordinary people; and because He works in them, they are special.

In God’s museum of life we are his treasures.

We are treasured not by what we can do or by who we are, but are treasured because of whose we are.

And to finish off the verse, because we are treasured, his special possession, may we declare praises of him for he called us out of our darkness and into his light.

You are treasured

so shine for him

and declare his glory.

Mary’s Song

This song (often called the Magnificant, after the Latin translation of the first few words) resembles Hannah’s song in 1 Samuel 2:1-10, but it also has at least 12 other allusions to the Old Testament. This means that Mary was a woman who studied and knew God’s Word. The Scriptures were on her heart, and came out through her song. (BBB)