Satisfactory. Adequate. Capable. Competent. Sufficient.
Enough.
We live in an age when terms like this mean a lot less than they really do. My friends would be appalled if I said to a beloved, “You are sufficient.” They would shake their heads as I quietly whispered the words, “You are enough.”
In their defense, culture has taken words like “sufficient” and redefined them more to mean that something has met the minimum requirements and no more. “Enough” means that you’ve done just what was required to meet the qualifications. For someone to be enough, it means they are simply good enough to meet immediate needs, but will be left when something better comes along.
But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.”
God’s grace meets the minimum requirements and is good enough until something better comes along.
How foolish.
For six years I was told by one action after another that I was not enough. The one once closest found “enough” in everyone else but me. It’s easy to feel bad about being “just” sufficient until you aren’t. Then it’s the only desire. When I look to heaven I say with joy, “You are enough, Father! Enough to cover my sin. Enough to pay my debt. Enough to overcome death. Enough to declare me perfect. Enough to shape my future and make me like Christ. Enough to give me authority in heaven. Enough that glory will be made clear and be revealed though my greatest shortcomings. Enough so that I have no other need. Because in all this, Father, you are enough!”
“In every way I think of you, you are enough. This is the longing of my heart Lord also, to be called enough.”
You are enough.