The bread or the baker...
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What is the goal of my relationship with Jesus Christ?
Am I passionately pursing the King of Glory with the hopes
my life will benefit in some manor?
Am I going to the Creator of all things simply to receive
the things of which He has created?
Am I after the bread that is provided? Or am I after the baker of the bread?
If I don’t receive splendor and blessings in this life, will
I still be satisfied with following Christ? After all, the picture of an easy and painless life is not what is promised to me in the bible.
These are the questions I wrestle with and the things I have to continually check my heart on. What is truly enough
for my soul and how does my life reflect that.
We have all heard it said before “God is enough”, whether in
a sermon or maybe even reading a blog like this one. “Don’t do this, God is
enough is satisfy that desire” or “don’t chase after this longing, God is
enough to fill that void”.
I think we tend to just believe and assume that God is
enough after we become a Christian. We forget what it was like to never be
satisfied by the things of the world. Once we are adopted into the family of
Christ we tend to become almost like spoiled children, don’t we? We now have access to a
Father, who is good and perfect, to ask of Him things we desire. We now have
the ability to approach the throne with confidence (which is a beautiful thing,
don’t get me wrong). But are we approaching the throne in awe or with an ideal
list of how our life should go now that we are walking with Christ? It then
becomes what can Christ give me? This is almost a type of idolatry, where we
want the gifts over the giver of the gifts.
Colossians 1:17-20
tells us that in everything Christ should be preeminent and above all things.
Friends, this is the goal, the end, what it’s all about: Jesus.
Not what Jesus can do, give or provide for your life, but
simply that He is enough.
He is really enough. What would my life look like if I
walked in that? If I could rest in that? Believing that He is enough casts out
all legalistic ideas. I don’t have to do anything else, He has done it. I don’t
have to fill myself with worldly things, He fills my desires. When He is enough, I don’t have to fall into
comparison and be “without understanding” as 1 Corinthians 10:12 describes. I
can stop going to the world for cheap imitations and answers.
God is the end goal, not what worldly things God brings
about in a life that is reconciled with Him, but rather God Himself. We cannot
continue to use God for bread, we get God and that is enough.
My prayer:
Dad,
May I be reminded that You are enough for my soul. I was
created to delight in You and You alone. May I seek Your will above my own
feeble desires. May I press into Your truth rather than lean into my own lies. Grow
me in an understanding of Your heart. Open my eyes to see how You have provided
abundantly in every way. Let me be thankful above all else for what You have done
and the work you have promised to finish.
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