Enough

About a year ago I was sitting in Bob Evans on West Ave. at 6am with my good friend Matt. We were in the habit of meeting together weekly for the purpose of encouraging one another and helping each other see places where God was at work in our lives. On this particular morning I kicked off our conversation talking about a song. It just so happened that I couldn’t get this song out of my head. It just kept playing over and over. The song is called “Enough” and was written by Chris Tomlin, maybe you’ve heard it before.

Anyway, there is a line in that song that says “all of You is more than enough for all of me, for every thirst and every need, you satisfy me with your love and all I have in you is more than enough.” I sat there that morning confessing to Matt that I’d spent a lot of time in my life not really living (or believing) that God was more than enough for my needs. And each time this song echoed in my head I was making an effort to really listen to that truth and apply it by the way that I live, but I had to admit that I felt as though I’d been letting god down, like He was disappointed in my lack of trust.

Matt chimed in and pointed out that maybe it wasn’t just a song that was stuck in my head. Maybe God was using that song – even singing it to me so that I would absorb that truth and start trusting him at a new level. Maybe God was not disappointed, but instead maybe he was excited about the new levels of trust that I was exploring. Matt also mentioned a verse from the Old Testament that says something about God singing a song over us. I thought it was a cool concept but our time was up and I had to get to work so we left it at that.

A day or two later I was reading a book that a friend of mine had written. Because he was a friend, he had sent me a free copy of the book and had written a little note to me on the inside cover. For some reason I decided to go back and read his words and I noticed that just below his name he had included a reference from scripture, Zepheniah 3:17. A lot of people do this kind of thing and I don’t always pay attention to it. I just figure it is their life verse or something. Well, I decided to go ahead and see what Zephaniah 3:17 said, so I looked it up and here’s what I read…

Zeph. 3:17
The Lord your God is with you, he is mighty to save. He will take great delight in you, he will quiet you with his love, he will rejoice over you with singing.”

Suddenly the pieces all started fitting together. The song, my talk with Matt, the book, and God’s own words all working together to wake me up not only to a new level of trust in God, but also to a new awareness of His intense love for me.