There are so many tasks we will be given in our lives. Child, student, Christian, worker, spouse, parent, boss, grandparent, etc. just to cover a few. In every task we take on, we are changing lives, leading someone in one way or another. My kids were talking about traveling through time the other day. We were watching Star Trek, and in the story plot, Captain Picard had traveled through time. They thought it was so neat that he could go back and forth in time. “Think of all the things you would know and could change,” one of my children said. What we then talked about is how IF we could go back in time, any little thing we did that was different from our previous time could drastically change the future. We really don’t know how each little thing we do each day impacts our future, or someone else’s.
My child said, “yea but I could change my bad day to make it better.” I told her that it might make it better for her, but it could cause someone else’s day to be ruined. I told her we need to focus on our future days instead of trying to change something from the past. We learn from our past so that our future doesn’t look the same. And the best way to change lives is to show others how Jesus works in our life. We can’t do this on our own, but only with God’s help. We aren’t qualified to make changes in other people’s lives without Jesus. In that same manner, we shouldn’t ever try to take claim on other’s great successes, either. Nor our own. We didn’t get where we are today on our own. God had his hands in our lives from day one.
People may think they are sufficient, and got through life on their own, but that just isn’t true. They don’t all the “behind the scenes” people God out in their lives, even in small ways, that helped contribute to their successes. A childhood friend that said you couldn’t do something may have given you motivation to try to achieve it anyway. A classmate in school that you wanted to do better than. A group of friends you wanted to grow closer to. All these things make you change somehow. As an adult, we can see how some of the choices we made could have been better. And we may wish we hadn’t made them, and could undo the hurt we felt. Instead of trying to change them, we can use them to direct our future and see how we can help others avoid those same mistakes. We can find God in those sorrowful times and teach others how to do the same. We can show others how only God can fill the holes in our lives, and only through him can we truly find happiness in our lives.
Sufficiency means enough, or adequate. Through Jesus, we are enough. We are adequate. We do matter and we are important. Please don’t forget that.
2 Corinthians 3:5 Not that of ourselves we are qualified to take credit for anything as coming from us; rather, our qualification comes from God.
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