Am I inadequate for life’s challenges?. . . Are you?
I’m a mom of a 4-year old girl, a 2-1/2 year old boy, a 1-year-old girl, and #4 is due in July. Sometimes simply the logistics of caring for several at this age, coordinating schedules & naptimes, changing diapers, finding time for housework and personal Bible reading and trying to have people over–not to mention reading to the kids or teaching them to share or training the baby high chair manners!–can be overwhelming.
At church we are going through 2 Peter. Very early in the book, Peter tells us that God has given us “all we need for life and godliness.” All we need.
Not just for life. But for godly living.
He did not say that we will never struggle. In fact, the entire book of 1 Peter was written to address Christians who are suffering. It is assumed that we will suffer. And with that understanding Peter tells us: God has given us all we need for life and godliness.
We need to rise to the challenges we are facing, confident that God will give us the grace and strength that we need (2 Corinthians 12:9; Isaiah 40:29), His wisdom when we ask (James 1:5), and then we can find our peace in His promises (Philippians 4:7) and in His mercy, which is “new every morning” (Lamentations 3:22-24).
Great is His faithfulness!!
Thanks, Becky.