WOYWW: God is Enough

“I could not believe that He would hearken to my words.” Job 9:16

The Book of Job is one of the most depressing in the Bible and asks the most difficult questions that atheists, agnostics and even Christians ask. Why is there so much suffering in the world when there is a loving God powerful enough to do something about it? One of the lessons of the Book of Job is that we do not so much need answers as we need God Himself. We simply do not have enough wisdom to understand everything now but one day we will. In our own journey towards Him, we just need to trust Him and know He loves us far more than we can ever imagine.

Many of us cannot grasp this kind of love, because we have been rejected so often. We cannot believe that God really, really wants to love us and get close to us, with no reservations. 

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I like listening to Lisa Harper. She is so funny even if she teaches some pretty hard lessons from the Bible. When she was younger she was dating a Pastor and they had been going out for a year when he invited her out for Valentine’s Day. He brought her to a really fancy restaurant. At the end of the meal, the waiter brings out a gift wrapped box from a very expensive dress shop. Lisa could hardly believe her date would buy her a thousand dollar dress! He insisted she open her gift, and when she did, she noticed the dress was a size 3. She was a size 7. When he asked that she try it on, she refused several times until she confessed, “It’s not going to fit me.”

“I know,” her date said. “But if you can go down to a size 3, I could really really fall for you.” How many of us are confident enough to laugh about a rejection like that? Many of us feel that we aren’t valued, our opinions don’t matter, we aren’t good enough, and we feel we have to fit into a “size three” before we can be accepted. 

What I know is that we cannot go through life looking for acceptance and love from imperfect people. Although, usually, our friends, family or office mates do not want to intentionally hurt us, we do get hurt, we may feel slighted, even spurned, by words they say, or even something they do. If we can only see ourselves through God’s eyes, how He made this beautiful world for each of us, how He gave us gifts to make us happy, how He thought of us from the beginning and has an awesome plan to bring us home with Him, it would be enough. God hearing us, listening to us, is enough.