What if I am enough?
What if I am enough?
What if all of the self loathing, self doubt… its was all pride that has now died in Christ? I am enough because He is God. He is my defender. He is wise and He is my friend.
Yahweh is my revelation-light
and the source of my salvation.
I fear no one!
I’ll never turn back and run, for you, Yahweh,
surround and protect me.
When evil ones come to destroy me,
they will be the ones who turn back.
My heart will not fear even if an army rises to attack.
I will not be shaken, even if war is imminent.
Here’s the one thing I crave from Yahweh,
the one thing I seek above all else:
I want to live with him every moment in his house,
beholding the marvelous beauty of Yahweh,
filled with awe, delighting in his glory and grace.
I want to contemplate in his temple.Psalm 27:1-4 TPT
I feel like the more aware I become, the stronger I get. When the Lord makes me aware of my desire to please people because I am afraid of being alone, I am then quickly able to shift to the firm foundation of my identity in Christ Jesus.
The Lord is my light and my salvation—
whom shall I fear?
The Lord is the stronghold of my life—
of whom shall I be afraid?Psalm 27:1 TPT
I am honestly amazed at how good my life is, and it’s not because I am inherently in some great place that earthly circumstances have left me with. God used the circumstances to change me.
I am different.
I am not that scared little girl anymore. I am not some victim to the pain of my childhood.
Trauma happened but trauma is not my identity.
By the grace of the Holy Spirit, I have learned to not stay stuck in old identities and toxic cycles born from childhood trauma. I have faced the dark and ugly places within me. I have looked long and hard in the mirror and I have decided— I am enough. All of me is enough.
But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me. That is why, for Christ’s sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.
I am not afraid of my weakness. I am not afraid of my failure. I am not afraid of my imperfections. I am not afraid of the process. I am not cursing my ground by hating my season of obscurity and hiddenness in Christ.
I am enough because He is enough.
I have made peace with where I am today because I know I am simply in process.
To produce wine, first the grapes must be harvested from the vineyard.
Then each box of grapes is collected.
The grapes are then taken in for processing.
The grapes are sorted, taking out any that are no good.
The grapes are then taken through an intensive process of crushing and pressing so that all of the juice is taken out of them.