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Is Jesus enough for me?

Is He enough for me in the midst of confusion, uncertainty, and disruption?

Is He enough for me when there is no end in sight to a virus that seems to be taking over?

Is He enough for me when the rest of my senior year is cancelled, including my high school graduation?

Is He enough for me when I feel isolated from the people that I love?

Is He enough for me when trips that I have had planned for months have now been cancelled?

Is He enough for me when I long to to feel in control?

Is Jesus enough?

Is He enough for me when my heart is heavy and my soul is restless?

Is He enough for me when my thoughts are obsessive and I wrestle with sin?

Is He enough for me to be satisfied in my present state when I long for perfection?

Is He enough for me when I doubt my salvation, and I try to put my hope in my fragile self?

Is Jesus enough?

These are questions to wrestle with, to pray about, and to meditate on.

These are questions that should cause us to run to the throne of grace, pleading that Jesus would be enough for our weary souls.

Because the truth is, He is enough, and I long for Him to be enough for me.

And not just enough, I long for Him to be everything.

All of creation is groaning for the King of Heaven to make all things new.

And one day He will.

But until that glorious day, let us collapse into His arms, trusting that He will always be enough.

Through these weeks of isolation and cancelled plans, the Lord has given me the blessing of scripture and songs that have blessed my soul. I pray they are an encouragement to you as well:

Though the fig tree should not blossom,
    nor fruit be on the vines,
the produce of the olive fail
    and the fields yield no food,
the flock be cut off from the fold
    and there be no herd in the stalls,
yet I will rejoice in the Lord;
    I will take joy in the God of my salvation.
God, the Lord, is my strength;
    he makes my feet like the deer’s;
    he makes me tread on my high places.

Habakkuk 3:17-19 ESV

But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me. For the sake of Christ, then, I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities. For when I am weak, then I am strong.

2 Corinthians 12:9-10 ESV

Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the sea was no more. And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “Behold, the dwelling place of God is with man. He will dwell with them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them as their God. He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed away.”

Revelation 21: 1-4 ESV