Set ApartSample

Day One: Will I Ever Be Enough?

Many of us find ourselves asking: Am I doing enough? Am I good enough? Will I ever feel like I’m enough? 

I don’t know about you, but I’ve had enough of enough! 

There has to be a better way, a way beyond the fear that if we don’t do it right, everything will fall apart or we’ll miss out. That life could be better if we just worked harder. People would love us more. Our kids would be happier. Our marriage would be better. Just keep working, working, working. 

But what if the things we’re chasing, the things we’re hoping will settle all the “good enough” questions, are actually the source of our exhaustion? 

In the story of Mary and Martha in Luke 10, Jesus doesn’t chide Martha for being a hostess. He doesn’t say, “Don’t clean your house. Don’t cook for guests.” He simply says Mary has chosen what is better. 

What if, by trying to hold it all together, we’re missing out? Jesus says, “Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest” (Matthew 11:28). Rest. Peace. Isn’t that what we all need? 

Like Martha, you and I can’t effectively operate in our gifting if we’re serving with an anxious heart. We can’t give God all the glory when we’re trying to please everyone around us. 

Why do you do the things you do? What drives you? Is it comparing yourself to others? Is it fear? A search for purpose?

Do you know what God has gifted you to do? Do you know how to use those gifts for his glory, without worry, approval seeking, and exhaustion? 

We’ve been set apart to know Christ, to sit at his feet. We’ve also been set apart to serve him with everything we are—heart, soul, mind, and strength. We can never enjoy our identity as beloved, set-apart daughters if we don’t learn that, in Jesus, we are already enough. 

He has something much better for us than checking off an endless to-do list or worrying about whether we should push more and try harder. He offers us himself. He is the Prince of Peace, the God who does not drive us but draws us. 

Because you, dear sister, are enough. 

In what area of your life are you most likely to feel that you are not enough? Why do you think that is?