OUR INADEQUACY IS HIS SUFFICIENCY!

OUR INADEQUACY IS HIS SUFFICIENCY!

2 Cor 3:5

5 Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God;

Phil 3:3

3 For we are the circumcision, which worship God in the spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh.

Phil 4:13

13 I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.

1. OUR INADEQUACY

During His earthly ministry, and throughout the New Testament, Jesus tries to clarify for us our inadequacy. The bottom line is that things that are impossible with man are yet possible with God! We did not become inadequate through some fault or lack. It did not come upon us gradually. It is inherent in our very nature. Adam fell but we are fallen. David lamented “in sin did my mother conceive me.”

Our inadequacy is so comprehensive that we can not expect anything godly or good to spring from our own resources. We do not have any resources that can save a soul, transform a life, or cause the church to be encouraged.

Ps 146:3

3 Put not your trust in princes, nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help.

2. GOD’S ADEQUACY

The second thing God keeps trying to teach us is His adequacy. He is infinitely capable beyond all that we ask or think. This is not to shame us further by contrast but to encourage us to trust in Him. Oh, how foolish is the man who trusts only in his own resources!

2 Cor 9:8

8 And God is able to make all grace abound toward you; that ye, always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work:

Lord, teach me to hope in you for everything I need for godly living. In Jesus name, Amen.