“Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? Yet not one of them will fall to the ground outside your Father’s care. And even the very hairs of your head are all numbered. So don’t be afraid; you are worth more than many sparrows.” Matthew 10:29-30  

“But the Lord said to Samuel, “Do not consider his appearance or his height, for I have rejected him. The Lord does not look at things people look at. People look at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at his heart.”” 1 Samuel 16:7  

In my previous post Lighting up the Lies of the Devil I mentioned that the devil likes to tell us lies that make us question our worth and being enough and I want to take this post to bring light to what the Bible says about our worth and being enough, to try and shut down the lies the devil likes to use to hold us hostage.  

Throughout my life I have battled the predicament of if I am enough or worthy and I used to think that I had to be enough or have enough to be considered worthy. The definition of enough is to the degree or quantity that satisfies, or is sufficient. Worthy is having or showing qualities or abilities that merit recognition in a specified way.  

Before I looked up the definitions and what the Bible says about being enough and worthy I thought that I had to have enough to be considered worthy of some status. For example I used to think that I had to have enough money, the best job, the nice car, the great house and that would be enough and I would then consider myself worthy and the people of the world would accept me and call me worthy. Well last year I had what I thought was my enough. I got married to the man of my dreams, I was doing so well in work that I was in a leadership program, I was killing it at work, I was working out almost every morning, my car is paid off, we have an amazing house and a great dog and yet I was lost. I was so focused on getting the next thing to be considered enough that I was burnt out and I was lying to myself that I was okay.  

The truth that I was so focused on what the world said was enough that I wasn’t even looking at what God says about enough and worthy. I had it all backwards. I was focused on the world’s perspective not God’s perspective.  

In the Bible the verses that talk about sufficiency and having enough do not mention human beings being what it takes to be enough. The verses reflect that earthly satisfaction is temporary and that lasting satisfaction comes from the Lord alone.  

In Genesis 25:32-33 we see that Esau gives up his birthright to his brother Jacob for stew because he was starving for a brief moment. He was willing to give up a longer term inheritance for a short term satisfaction, hunger. In Numbers 11 the Israelites were out of slavery and on their way to the promise land that God promised them and they were complaining that they wanted the fish they had in captivity instead of gratefully eating the manna that God provided them in their freedom. When our perspective is on what we can provide ourselves or what we used to have or what other have, we diminish who God is in our lives and what he has done for us.  

Psalm 63 was written by David when he was being chased by Saul. David had been anointed by God to be the new king because Saul lost his favor with God. Saul chased David for 7 years before David would become king. In Psalm 63 David is hiding in the wilderness but he proclaims in verse 3, “Because your love is better than life, my lips will glorify you.” I am not sure about you but if I was being chased in the wilderness after I was anointed I would have been angry, I would have some trust issues with God. But David reflected on who God, in verse 7-8 he focuses on God being his help and protector, “Because you are my help, I sing in the shadow of your wings. I cling to you; your right hand upholds me.” When we catch ourselves focusing on others lives, on the worldly perspectives we become dissatisfied with our lives instead of praising God for what he has already done and what we already have. In John 6: 35 “Jesus declared, ” I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will never go hungry, and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty.” When we put God first in our life God puts what is supposed to be in our lives. He gives us exactly what we need in that moment, because when we focus on the more we tend to turn away from focusing on our Heavenly Father. I am not saying that God will not bless us with more than what we ask for because he does but he blesses us with the things that will keep pointing us back to him. When we have God at the center of our life what we have is enough, because what we have he specifically provided for us.  

God is our portion because he created us. He created us in his image and called us worthy from the beginning. No amount of money, the perfect house, the nice car, the degrees qualify us as enough to be worthy to God, they may make us momentarily worthy for the world but not in the kingdom of God.  

In Matthew 10: 29-31, Jesus was preparing his disciples to go out into the world to spread the good new of the gospel and was reminding them that they will experience trouble but if God takes care of the sparrows surely he will take care of them and that is the same of us. In verse 31, Jesus reminds the disciples, ” Do not be afraid; you are worth more than many sparrows.” When we have God, there is no reason to fear because God will guide and protect us. In our own lives when we follow our calling for God’s purpose we will experience trials but God calls us worthy and will help us if we will turn to him.

In Mark 1:40-41 Jesus heals a man with leprosy by touching him. When Jesus healed the man he was showing us that everyone can be cleaned by God, who calls us worthy. Even the unclean Jesus found worthy of saving and making them clean.  We may not have leprosy but we have sin and God still finds us worthy through our sin, we just have to seek him.

In Genesis 1:31 “God saw all that he made, and it was very good.” On the 6th day God created the live stock and mankind and he called us good on the day we were created. Genesis 1:27, “So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them.” we were created in the image of God not supermodels and the super rich. In Psalm 113:5-9 Jesus concerns himself with all of his people, poor, needy, princes, mothers, no mater what our relationship is with wealth or on the social ladder he is concerned with us.  No matter where you are in life God is concerned with you and still finds you worthy.

When God gave Moses the 10 Commandments he knew that we would face these questions because that is why the first commandment is to have no other gods, before God and the last is not to covet. When we keep God first and center of our life, our choices reflect a Christ centered life. We lead by example and when we focus on God we may face the temptation to covet but with God first we will have the strength to focus on what we do have and not what our neighbor has.  

Will you let God be enough for your life? Will you accept that God has already called you worthy, by creating you? 

It is a fact from the Bible that God called you worthy, your mind has to let go of your opinion of yourself and listen to what God has called you. God will take care of you, if you let him.  

When we accept the fact that we are already called WORTHY by God we don’t have to strive to be enough.  

Heavenly Father, I thank you for the person that is reading this blog and I thank you that you are our portion and we do not have to be enough to enter your presence. You called us worthy when you created us in your image and I pray that this post reminded each person that we are not called to strive as the world strives but we are to look to you as the center of our life and that is enough for us. You will always provide a way and you will always be with us. Help us remember daily that you called us worthy and you will always be enough for us no matter how many times the world tries to tell us different. Thank you for your love and your son as a living sacrifice. In your son’s name I pray. Amen.

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