I Am Not Enough by Amy Davidson
In a world so concerned about protecting other’s feelings, as Christians, we do a disservice to others if we preach the “You are enough!” message and stop there. Truth is, you are enough only because Christ paid your penalty. It’s nothing you did, it’s who Christ is. You are only enough because God deemed it to be enough for you to come to him as you are, broken and messy, and lay at his feet.
I am not enough without Christ. I am not enough as a wife without Christ. I am not enough as a friend without Christ. I am not enough as a daughter without Christ. I am not enough as an aunt without Christ. I am not enough as an employee without Christ.
I firmly believe we are living in a society of people so terrified of offending others that we will say whatAs a woman in recovery, I’ve heard therapists, peers, ever we need to and twist whatever truth to make and the recovery community tell me over and over those around us feel good. I’d say this especially for years now that “I am enough just as I am.” The happens within certain kinds of churches. Pastors problem with that is when the message doesn’t have stand at the pulpit and preach a “feel good” mesa semicolon. I was born a sinner, and no work I do sage so you will come back the next week, inspired. can change that fact or remedy it. I am not enough, Partial truth is being taught. I don’t know about you, simple as that. I am not enough to save myself. I am but I was raised to believe that if it isn’t the whole not enough as a wife, as a friend, as a daughter, as truth, then it is lies and deceit. an aunt, or as any other title, I might be given. Hear me out. These aren’t a pile of negative words I have We don’t need more “feel good” messages coming thrown together to discourage you. I want to add a from the pulpit. We need conviction and the whole prepositional phrase to these statements. gospel, the gospel that tells me I am a desperate and undeserving sinner who needs mercy from a just and righteous King.
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