God Is Enough
“The greatest lesson a soul has to learn is that God, and God alone, is enough for all its needs. This is the lesson that all God’s dealings with us are meant to teach, and this is the crowning discovery of our entire Christian life. God is enough!
No soul can really be at rest until it has given up dependence on everything else and has been forced to depend on the Lord alone. As long as our expectation is from other things, nothing but disappointment awaits us. Feelings may change, doctrines and dogmas may be upset, the Christian work may come to nought, prayers may seem to lose their fervency, promises may seem to fail, everything that we have believed in or depended on may seem to be swept away, and only God is left- just God, the bare God if I may be allowed the expression, simply and only God.
If God is what he would seem to be from his revealing; if he is indeed the “God of all comfort”; if he is our shepherd; if he is really and truly our Father; if, in short, all the many aspects he has told us of his character and his ways are actually true, then we must come to the positive conviction that he is, in himself alone, enough for all our needs and that we may safely rest in him absolutely and forever.” ~Hannah Whitall Smith
(…wow…)
February 5th, 2009 at 11:06 pm
praying for you guys.
February 6th, 2009 at 12:49 am
Sweet sister, thanks for that post. Thanks to God for leading you to post it for He alone is enough for us for every season and He continues to remind me how I must depend on Him alone for next breath! Continue to rest in Him looking to Him for through it all, our God never fails even when the flowers fade and seasons change, He remains the same yesterday, today and forever. Daddy, we lay all at the altar–the foot of the cross. God is enough–His grace is sufficient! Yea and amen~ Psalm 62
February 6th, 2009 at 2:32 am
Isn’t that the truth! I am really just starting to get this. It just seems to easy, but at the same time too hard. Just hold on to Him? How can I only do that? How can I not.
February 6th, 2009 at 1:25 pm
I know that you guys are definitely relying on God a lot today. I have been praying for you!!
February 6th, 2009 at 1:31 pm
Hey Kristin – thanks for the encouraging quote. sorry to hear all that’s going on with Aiden – we’ll be praying for him… and you too!
February 6th, 2009 at 3:25 pm
Wonderful.
Love and prayers from us!