II Cor. 3:5

"Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God." II Cor. 3:5


The verses before this talk about how we are "epistles" of Christ...written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God.....known and read of all men. This goes along with what I was meditating on yesterday....

I want to be the "word of God" and be READ by my family....

Now this verse says I can't do this in my own power. My sufficiency is only of GOD.

Guess what else?

The word "sufficiency" has the idea of "being content, SECURITY".

In the midst of illness and what I'm going through, this verse has special meaning. If I have HIM, I have everything. He is all I NEED. He is my SECURITY. I am CONTENT in Him!

Did I share my favorite verse yesterday?

Ps. 73:25-26

"Whom have I in heaven but thee? and there is none upon earth that I desire beside thee. My flesh and my heart faileth: but God is the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever."

Yesterday I laid in bed and this prayer flowed from my lips as I cried out to God. Indeed when I feel so ill, nothing is important at all except living in the arms of Jesus...and He is all I want or desire!

I've been feeling quite lonely lately...I love love people, and I thrive on fellowship, but sometimes, like yesterday, I was truly able to say, "There is none upon earth that I desire beside thee."

My sufficiency is of God!