Is Christ Worthy Enough...All The Time?

Is - it - enough?

Is it enough to sit around with loved ones and talk about how we are doing?

Is it enough to sit around with loved ones and talk about our relationships?

Is it enough to sit around with loved ones and talk about what has been going on in our life?

Is it enough to sit around with loved ones and talk about school, work, business?

Is it enough to sit around with loved ones and talk about the latest news in the world?

Is it enough to sit around with loved ones and talk about how we have been wronged, been hurt, misused?

Is it enough to sit around with loved ones and talk about theology?

Is it enough to sit around with loved ones and talk about what's coming up?

Is it enough to sit around with loved ones and talk about our problems?

Is it enough to sit around with loved ones and talk about things that make us laugh?

Guess what...

It - just- is - not- enough!

Let us be reminded of something; God, being so rich in mercy, because he loved us with such a great love, demonstrates this in that Christ died.

For who? His enemies.

Who were they? You.

Why? Because he loves you.

Why is it not enough to fill our time with anything other than reminding each other DAILY of the helplessness we were in; yoked in an unbreakable chain of slavery, defeated by the ultimate giant, rotting in the death of our worship to these golden calf's - miraculously having a Hero come in to save the day, painting His blood on the doorway of our hearts, firing the Rock directly at the giant conquering it in one hit, and coming down from the highest mountain to deliver to us the true and comforting words to be His people for eternity?

Why is it not enough we still ask? Nothing fulfills the way the true story of how God through Jesus Christ came and redeemed a people not wanting to be redeemed, a people lost, helpless, dead (cf. John 1:10) does then the things that consume our mind so quickly from the false story this world tells us. The very fact that it is so easy for us to get together and talk about anything and everything other than Jesus Christ and what He has done for us shows us how forgetful we are and how desperately we are in need of being reminded of the story we are a part of. Hebrews tells us:

Take care, brethren, that there not be in any one of you an evil, unbelieving heart that falls away from the living God. But encourage one another day after day, as long as it is still called "Today," so that none of you will be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin. For we have become partakers of of Christ, if we hold fast...(3:12-14a)

Again Deuteronomy tells us:

When your son asks you in time to come, saying, 'What do the testimonies and the statutes and the judgments mean which the Lord our God commanded you?' then you shall say to your son, 'We were slaves to Pharaoh in Egypt, and the Lord brought us from Egypt with a mighty hand. Moreover, the Lord showed great and distressing signs and wonders before our eyes against Egypt, Pharaoh and all his household; He brought us our from there in order to bring us in, to give us the land which He had sworn to our fathers.' So the Lord commanded us to observe all these statutes, to fear the Lord our God for our good always and for our survival, as it is today. (6:20-24)

In Christ, the true story of God is manifested - our story of a filthy bride loved, captured, and made beautiful by One who gave everything to give us everything! No longer run to the false story of this world; the empty claims and fleeting materials and ideas, but run to hear and tell and live for the story and the things which God gives us for our good and survival, ALWAYS. Jesus Christ loves sinners!

Be encouraged fam.