Have you gotten to the end of your rope and then it snapped? Have you ever been on an elevator and it felt like the cable slipped a little? You know that out of control feeling. You remember how the pit of your stomach felt? When you think you are standing on solid ground and it gives way it causes many things to happen. Your arms reach for something to grab. Your knees buckle. Your butt tightens up. Your mouth make a noise. Fear causes many responses.
When this happens in real life, the reflexes are often the same. When your at the end of your rope, then it snaps! The bottom falls out. How far is it to the end of yourself? How far will you have to fall until you realize that you need help? How far before you realize you have nothing that is going to make it better? As one of Steven Curtis Chapman’s songs puts it, “when you hit the bottom and the bottom gives way”.
I/We really need Jesus. We need his grace because we will only survive if He gives us what we cannot get on our own. We need his mercy because He is the only one that has taken what we deserve and does not give it to us. He is the only one who will accept me just as I am.
When I live in His sufficiency, I find life. When I live in my sufficiency, I find struggle.
Not that we are sufficient in ourselves to claim anything as coming from us, but our sufficiency is from God, (2 Cor 3:5, ESV)
