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Is Jesus Enough?


When you go to Church you will hear songs or hymns that say, "Jesus is all I need." If you attend a Catholic or Orthodox Church you will see Christ upon the cross at the altar or his icon at the center of the Iconostasis ruling everything. As Christ followers we profess that Jesus is enough, but do our lives reflect it? We want to be "not of this world," but at the same time "of the world." People, especially believers are becoming less content with each century. There was a time when many believers found full satisfaction in suffering for the sake of their Savior. They endured hardships that would harden the hearts of nominal believers today.

Is Jesus enough? A question that haunts the conscientious Christian. It is easy to make Christ a part of your life, but what about making Him your life? Can the Savior sustain you if all was lost? If your family, friends, and possessions were striped away; would you stay true to Christ? Better yet would you willingly and voluntarily give up family, friends, and fine things to follow Jesus? Such a question sounds preposterous to pew setters, but everyday you are tested in this. The enemy of our souls and the evils of this world desire to supplant our source of Salvation and to make us flaky followers.

There are preachers who will claim that Christ does not ask you to give up anything to follow Him. I understand this perspective that becoming a believer require Faith (trust) in Christ and His Message (The Gospel). But the truth is that you will be asked, "is Jesus enough?" When the temptation to fill your soul with food, shopping, smoking, and so on comes the question is asked. When you feel fear fall upon you about losing a house, car, or your belongs the question is asked again, "Is Jesus enough?"

The answer is yes, Jesus is enough. But living out this answer requires dying daily. We must die to lust, idolatry, and the desiring this world. We are told by commercials and advertisements that we are unhappy, that we need diamonds, tools, big screen TVs, make up, video games, fried food, and so on. The truth is we need Jesus and to decide He is enough means to see that none of those aforementioned things are enough. The need to buy more, eat more, drink more, and so on will ever be present. No matter what you fill your soul with, if it is not the Savior, you shall find the cravings return and your life ruled by the next fix.

Jesus Christ is enough. He is "all sufficient Savior." The time has come to take off the veil of this world and stop listening to the lies. The world and the Prince of It (the devil) wants us to yearn for more and to never be content. But in Christ lies our contentment and completeness. Everything around us tries to drive us away from God; but if we turn to Him in Jesus we shall find the wholeness we cannot find anywhere else. Jesus is enough and He is "all we need."

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