Always Enough
Before leaving on the World Race, I read a book about a missionary family titled “Always Enough.” This same theme of always enought keeps coming up. Rob Nambda, the Executive Director at El Rancho, who we served last month in New Zealand, asked us “Is Jesus enough?” If I didn’t have the comforts of food, shelter, family, good health, and everything else in this world that I feel like I have to have would God be enough?
Before leaving on the World Race, I read a book about a missionary family titled “Always Enough.” This same theme of always enought keeps coming up. Rob Nambda, the Executive Director at El Rancho, who we served last month in New Zealand, asked us “Is Jesus enough?” If I didn’t have the comforts of food, shelter, family, good health, and everything else in this world that I feel like I have to have would God be enough?
At first, we immediatly think “Yes!” We think “Yes” because that’s the “Christian” answer right? But when you dig deeper and really think what it really means, I hesitate. What if I lost everything: my family, friends, my ability to walk, talk, and eat by myself? What if I was humiliated, slandered, and beaten for the name of Jesus? Would He still be enough? I guess I can’t fully answer that right now. I pray that I would say “Yes,” but I’ve never been in those situations. I’m excited and nervous to see how God shows me this year that He is enough.
This is one instance that God is showing me that He is enough…I believe the day or two before we were flying to Australia, we didn’t know where we were all going to stay in Brisbane. But God is always enough and provided two houses. The girls stayed in Kate’s house (she went out of town) and the guys staying in Jamey and Fran’s house. I believe there were 30 some of us which is not a small number. They fed us and took time out of their schedules to take us site seeing. We were strangers, but they gave freely. They don’t know what it means to us. God blessed us with their hospitality and showed us kingdom on Earth.
