First I have to say greetings to the hundreds of newcomers to my blog. Thanks to Focus on the Family re-airing some interviews with me and Art last Thursday and Friday, I have a lot of new blog friends visiting this weekend. If you are interested in my marriage books they featured you can find them on the Focus on the Family website: www.family.org.
Or you can order "Capture His Heart" and "Capture Her Heart" from www.Proverbs31.org.
If you'd like to listen to the 2 broadcasts they aired, go to www.Family.org and click on October 11th and 12th, 2007 broadcasts. Be sure to listen to part one and part two.
Now, on to the question in my title: Is my Jesus enough? I was stopped in my tracks the other day as I was mindlessly singing a beautiful praise song. I say mindlessly not because I wasn't focusing on God. I was definitely lifting up my heart to Him. But the mindlessly part came when I realized I had no clue of the weight of the words in this song. Did I really mean what I was singing? The song said this: "(Jesus)You're all I want. You're all I ever needed."
Really? Did I really mean those words? Is my Jesus enough? Ultimately the question should be: Is my relationship with Jesus in such a place that if He was truly all I had today, would I still stand and sing those powerful song lyrics?
Art is flying on a small private plane today. You know the ones that you hear about that crash with no survivors... yes that kind of plane. As I kiss him goodbye in a few minutes can send him off with full confidence that no matter what, Jesus is enough?
My son Jackson just got his driver's license and will be driving to a friend's house to watch the football game in a few minutes. His friend lives less than five miles from our house. But don't the statistics show that most car accidents happen on the roads we are most familiar with, closest to our homes? Will I be able to smile, tell him to be careful and let him drive down our driveway with full confidence that no matter what, Jesus is enough?
I don't know what kinds of twists and turns might come during my life journey. But, I know the only way to travel with a joyful peace is to settle in my heart the answer to this question once and for all. So, today, I declare Jesus is enough. Before I even know in what way this declaration will be tested, I've made the decision to say it, believe it and settle it.
Jesus is enough.
I think this is why one of my favorite portraits of a godly woman in the Bible says, "she can laugh at the days to come," (Proverbs 31:25). She was filled with such incredible joy not because life was perfect but simply because she had decided to make laughter, peace, and true happiness the hallmark of her life. Proverbs 31:30 goes on to say this was a woman to be praised because she so reverenced God in the shrine of her heart that she knew without a doubt, He was enough.
May it be so for you and me as well.
Or you can order "Capture His Heart" and "Capture Her Heart" from www.Proverbs31.org.
If you'd like to listen to the 2 broadcasts they aired, go to www.Family.org and click on October 11th and 12th, 2007 broadcasts. Be sure to listen to part one and part two.
Now, on to the question in my title: Is my Jesus enough? I was stopped in my tracks the other day as I was mindlessly singing a beautiful praise song. I say mindlessly not because I wasn't focusing on God. I was definitely lifting up my heart to Him. But the mindlessly part came when I realized I had no clue of the weight of the words in this song. Did I really mean what I was singing? The song said this: "(Jesus)You're all I want. You're all I ever needed."
Really? Did I really mean those words? Is my Jesus enough? Ultimately the question should be: Is my relationship with Jesus in such a place that if He was truly all I had today, would I still stand and sing those powerful song lyrics?
Art is flying on a small private plane today. You know the ones that you hear about that crash with no survivors... yes that kind of plane. As I kiss him goodbye in a few minutes can send him off with full confidence that no matter what, Jesus is enough?
My son Jackson just got his driver's license and will be driving to a friend's house to watch the football game in a few minutes. His friend lives less than five miles from our house. But don't the statistics show that most car accidents happen on the roads we are most familiar with, closest to our homes? Will I be able to smile, tell him to be careful and let him drive down our driveway with full confidence that no matter what, Jesus is enough?
I don't know what kinds of twists and turns might come during my life journey. But, I know the only way to travel with a joyful peace is to settle in my heart the answer to this question once and for all. So, today, I declare Jesus is enough. Before I even know in what way this declaration will be tested, I've made the decision to say it, believe it and settle it.
Jesus is enough.
I think this is why one of my favorite portraits of a godly woman in the Bible says, "she can laugh at the days to come," (Proverbs 31:25). She was filled with such incredible joy not because life was perfect but simply because she had decided to make laughter, peace, and true happiness the hallmark of her life. Proverbs 31:30 goes on to say this was a woman to be praised because she so reverenced God in the shrine of her heart that she knew without a doubt, He was enough.
May it be so for you and me as well.
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