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Jesus is Enough: He Really Is


I wrote a blog post titled "Is Jesus Enough?" Never have I been more confronted by that question than today. As friends fall away and finer things lose their allure, I am confronted with the answer. Growing up as a child I had a circle of friends. We had a Round Table if you will and for a time I believed we would be like those knights in King Arthur's court; I imagined our loyalty to one another would last through our life time. But I was confronted with the truth as Camelot began to crumble. One by one friends withdrew their swords from the table and made troubled choices. I found myself down to Lancelot at my left and Gawain at my right.

As I watched my friends fall away, I felt not only the grief of losing them, but the grief of watching them forsaking the Lord's plan for their lives. They did not lose their faith, but their choices were not going to sow a deep relationship with Christ or reap good consequences in this life or the next. I am confronted with the fact that the only way to not change for the worse is to retain a child nature inside. Jesus Christ said, "Truly I tell you, unless you come to the Father like one of these children, you shall not enter the Kingdom of Heaven," and "suffer the little children to come to me, for the Kingdom of Heaven belongs to them." (Matthew 18:3, Mark 10:16, Luke 18:17).

What Jesus is saying is very specific. I believe the Lord wants us to grow up in our behavior, intellect, responsibilities, and etc. But we must retain a child like nature inside that is unchanging, just as Christ is unchanging. It is this child like faith and desire to remain innocent of the evils of this world that keeps people close to Christ and keeps them from changing for the worse. When I think of my friends as they began to forsake the round table, I see young men and women who had they not tried to grow up in the wicked ways of the world, they would be different and I argue happier people today.

Now on this day I have had Lancelot leave the Round Table, not with Guinevere, she left long ago. Now it is only I and Gawain. But frankly I am waiting for him to leave too. I feel much like St. Paul who said, "all have forsaken (deserted) me (2 Timothy 1:15, 4:10-16). This losing of relationships presses me to accept that Jesus is Enough. Friends come and they go. I am utterly convinced that what I and I am sure many are experiencing is the Scripture that says, "Everything that can be shaken, is being shaken." (Hebrew 12:27). Soon Camelot will be almost empty, with only those who still hold on to Christ and will not grow up in the wickedness of the world. They decide instead to grow up in the ways of the Lord and stay ignorant children to what is evil.

The Round Table (First Knight)
Jesus is enough, as I said in my other blog post. The truth of this belief is only becoming more apparent with every day. All around me is changing, friends are not who they were, family is fragmented, and the fine things that once pleased me such as a library of books and etc. no longer has the comfort it once did. Everything is being stripped, I am facing my own words that Jesus is Enough. He is the only unchanging aspect of this life. For the Scriptures say, "Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, tomorrow and forever." (Hebrews 13:8). We can rely on Him in these rough times. In Him alone can we place out complete trust.

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