My Grace Is Sufficient For You

And He said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for My strength is made perfect in weakness.” (2 Corinthians 12:9)

“My grace is sufficient for you.” You may emphasize any aspect of this you please.

“My grace is sufficient for you.” Grace is the favor and love of God in action. It means He loves us and is pleased by us. Can you hear it from God? “My love is enough for you.” Isn’t it true?

“My grace is sufficient for you.” Whose grace is it? It is the grace of Jesus. Isn’t His love, His favor, enough? What will Jesus fail at? Remember too that Jesus suffered thorns, so He cares, and He knows.

“My grace is sufficient for you.” It is right now. Not that it will be someday, but right now, at this moment, His grace is sufficient. Maybe we’ve thought something had to change before His grace would be enough. Maybe we’ve thought, “His grace was sufficient once, His grace may be sufficient again, but not now, not with what I am going through.” Despite that feeling, God’s word stands. “My grace is sufficient for you.”

“My grace is sufficient for you.” Alan Redpath explains this aspect best: “Do you see the humor of the situation? God’s grace: me. His grace is sufficient for little me! How absurd to think that it could ever be any different! As if a little fish could swim in the ocean and fear lest it might drink it dry! The grace of our crucified, risen, exalted, triumphant Savior, the Lord of all glory, is surely sufficient for me! Do you not think it is rather modest of the Lord to say sufficient?”

“My grace is sufficient for you.” I’m so glad God didn’t say, “My grace is sufficient for Paul the Apostle.” I might have felt left out. But God made it broad enough. You can be the “you” in this verse. God’s grace is sufficient for you! Are you beyond it? Are you so different? Is your thorn worse than Paul’s or worse than many others who have known the triumph of Jesus? Of course not. This sufficient grace is for you.

“This sufficiency is declared without any limiting words, and therefore I understand the passage to mean that the grace of our Lord Jesus is sufficient to uphold thee, sufficient to strengthen thee, sufficient to comfort thee, sufficient to make thy trouble useful to thee, sufficient to enable thee to triumph over it, sufficient to bring thee out of it, sufficient to bring thee out of ten thousand like it, sufficient to bring thee home to heaven… No believer here need be under any fear, since for him also, at this very instant, the grace of the Lord Jesus is sufficient.” (Charles Spurgeon)

Prompt: Receive God’s grace in its abundance today. Does any phrase of this verse catch your attention more than the others? His grace is sufficient for you.

Based on The Enduring Word Bible Commentary by David Guzik.