Author Erica Wiggenhorn Letting God Be Enough
By: Suzanne Mason
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When was the last time you felt as though you didn’t measure up? Last week? A few days past? A couple of minutes ago? The truth is we all have days, weeks, and—let’s be honest—sometimes even years when we feel inadequate. We doubt our capabilities and wonder why no matter what we do we’re never enough. We get stuck in the cycle of striving to reach that unattainable plateau of adequacy or we seek perfection because we know anything less is, well…. not good enough. But what if you didn’t have to try so hard? How would that change your life? In her new book “Letting God Be Enough,” Erica Wiggenhorn illustrates how relying on God allows us to let go of the endless quest to measure up and silence the sound of self-doubt.
As an author, teacher, speaker, and the founder of Every Life Ministries, Wiggenhorn seeks to help women live fully devoted to God and empowered by His Spirit, and she felt led to address the constant striving that’s become a cultural norm. “How God deals with this in his Word is so fundamentally different than what the world tells us. The world says if you don’t feel like you’re good enough or if you’re afraid people are going to reject you because you can’t perform at the level they’re expecting you to or do what they want you to do, you need to unroll your resume and go through all of your past successes and remind yourself of all of the things you’ve been able to do in the past; you need to build up the practice of remembering where you’ve been successful. The problem is that’s inadequate.” This led her to dive into Scripture to find someone who struggled with self-doubt. Enter Moses! By nearly all standards, the vast majority of us would say Moses embodies success and that we’d do well to look up to him. But that’s not going to fix our striving or perfectionism or inadequacies. “We often think of Moses’ story in terms of his epic moments of success, like parting the Red Sea, but we forget about Moses’ failure of trying to deliver the nation of Israel 40 years prior, which led to his fleeing Midian and being stuck there. He struggles with doubt. He unrolls his resume to God and wonders why He’s asking him to save His people.” Maybe that sounds familiar to you and you’re won-
