Then Peter said, "Silver and gold I do not have, BUT WHAT I DO HAVE I GIVE YOU: In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, rise up and walk."—Acts 3:6
So he, leaping up, stood and walked and entered the temple with them--walking, leaping, and praising God.—Acts 3:8
I often sell myself short...feel insufficient... think that I have nothing to offer to the sometimes overwhelming needs that I see in front of me. I especially feel it as I enter a nursing home...but I can also feel it even as I enter church, the food store or my own home. In reality, it is the truth. It is the right feeling. I am insufficient. In me I have nothing to offer. But thankfully, it isn’t just me that I bring anymore. It is Christ. I am accepted in the Beloved. I bring God the Father’s indescribable gift...His Son. In Him I AM sufficient because my sufficiency is FROM Him. I CAN GIVE THEM Jesus. I can surrender to Him who made me “me” and walk in those works that He prepared beforehand for me. I can trust Him with all my heart and lean not on my own understanding, acknowledging Him in all my ways and allowing Him to direct my path. He has made me sufficient for whatever it is He has prepared for me to do.
Job 20:22 (NKJV)
In his self-sufficiency he will be in distress; Every hand of misery will come against him.
2 Corinthians 3:5 (NKJV)
Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think of anything as [being] from ourselves, but our sufficiency [is] from God,
2 Corinthians 9:8 (NKJV)
And God [is] able to make all grace abound toward you, that you, always having all sufficiency in all [things,] may have an abundance for every good work.
2 Corinthians 2:16 (NKJV)
To the one [we are] the aroma of death [leading] to death, and to the other the aroma of life [leading] to life. And who [is] sufficient for these things?
2 Corinthians 12:9 (NKJV)
And He said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for My strength is made perfect in weakness." Therefore most gladly I will rather boast in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.
