Lent 2021: A Story to Live BySample

Enough

Reflection:

Most advertisements that you see will tell you a version of the same story: you are not enough. TV ads, billboards and sponsored content on social media repeat the same narrative: there is something missing in your life, and buying this product will make you feel more complete.

So pervasive is this message – the message of consumerism – that it has sunk into our subconscious and, without even knowing it, we believe it to be true. 

But it is not true.

The story of God tells us something different. It tells us that before we were even born God declared us worthy, complete, and very good. I knew this the moment I held my daughter in my arms for the first time. She was perfect – a masterpiece of our Creator. The fight of my life will be to ensure she never forgets that; to say over her again and again and again ‘You are enough.’ For that is what God is doing to each of us.

Prayer: 

Loving God, thank you that you made us in your image – the image of completeness. Thank you that, in you, we are in no way deficient. Help us to remember this always. Amen.

Author: Gideon Heugh