He is Enough.
This has been a long season of uncertainty and change. We’ve seen a worldwide pandemic, political upheaval, persecution of Christians around the world. and various ideological worldview theories presented to solve these problems. A few months in, struggling to find peace and direction, I decided to read through the Bible daily, using “Change Your Life Daily Bible” by Becky Tirabassi. I also joined a women’s Bible study on Colossians which was titled “He Is Enough” by Asheritah Ciuciu.
As I studied through Genesis and Exodus, it was comforting to read the well-known story of God’s plan and provision. God created man “in His image” (Genesis 1:17). Then original sin came through Adam and Eve’s disobedience (Genesis3:6). But there was the promise of the Messiah as “the seed of a woman will crush the head of Satan” (Genesis3:15). The story is about His Kingdom and He is at the center, not me. Politics, vaccines, and ideologies will not save us. Our identity is derived from God, and Christ alone can know and change people’s hearts. He alone can liberate us from sin. Will God use dissension and chaos to further His kingdom? Absolutely. Will He use persecution and suffering to bring the lost to Christ? If I trust in His faithfulness and sovereignty, the answer has to be yes. Jesus makes clear our part when he says, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind, and your neighbor as yourself (Matthew 22:27).
Turning to my study in Colossians, Paul preaches against false teaching, angel worship, and secret knowledge of that day. He teaches that Jesus Christ is enough. “The Son is the image of God (1:15), the Creator (1:16), and the Sustainer (1:17). Human philosophies and other world views are empty when compared to His completeness. The gospel is presented in Colossians 1:13-14, “For He rescued us from the domain of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of His beloved Son, in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sin.” I can trust these truths today and tomorrow, regardless of the chaos that is happening around me. The following prayer from Colossians 1:9-12 is as pertinent today as it was 2,000 years ago.
“For this reason also, since the day we heard of it, we have not ceased to pray for you and to ask that you may be filled with the knowledge of His will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding, so that you will walk in a manner worthy to the Lord, to please Him in all respects, bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God; strengthened with all power, according to His glorious might, for the attaining of all steadfastness and patience; joyously giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified us to share in the inheritance of the saints in Light”
Every day I can learn truths about God and His plan for redemption from the Old Testament. In the New Testament, I can know Christ’s love and His direction for my life in loving others. I can know that my identity is in Christ alone. We are all sinners in need of His grace. There needs to be no added truth because He is enough.
—Mary Menard