Jesus is Enough

For the woman at the well, carrying much more of a burden than her water jar. 

For the hypocritical Pharisees who didn’t really want answers to their questions.

For Mary and Martha, drowning in grief. 

For Thomas, doubting the intangible, fearful of what the tangible might mean.

For the masses, starving for bread or healing or whatever crust might be tossed their way.

For me and you. 

Jesus is enough.

This morning, during our worship service, I had a vision of a vision. It was Isaiah, standing in the temple, watching as it was filled with the train of the Lord’s robe. 

And I wondered, why did the temple fill with just the edge of His robe? Obviously, as He said to David, He cannot be contained in dwellings made by human hands. But why the edge of His robe? Was it enough, or was Isaiah disappointed?

And my vision shifted. Now, I was seeing through the eyes of the woman with the issue of blood, creeping through the crowd, reaching out. She desired just the hem of His garment. Her faith said it would be enough. 

When Isaiah’s lips had been purged, he heard the voice of the Lord. The woman, too, after her healing, heard the voice of the Lord. 

“Who will go for us?” …. “Go in peace.”

His hem was enough because they also beheld His face. They didn’t just cling to their healing. They clung to Jesus, God made man, because only He is enough, and He sent them out with His message of peace.

It’s a message that includes the truth. Self needs to die. Perhaps that is why, when Jesus preached the Gospel, it always started with, “Repent!”

Allow Him to empty you of anything you were trying to hold on to. Ask Him to strip away any identity that is not of Him. Allow Him to purge you of uncleanness. Hunger and thirst in your soul for what only He can provide. Forsake self.  

Jesus is enough.

Where He is, you won’t need self anymore. 

Self-preservation, self-gratification, and self-promotion evaporate in the Son.

“Indeed, I count everything as loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For His sake, I have suffered the loss of all things and count them as rubbish, in order that I may gain Christ and be found in Him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which comes through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God that depends on faith- that I may know Him and the power of His resurrection, and may share in His sufferings, becoming like Him in His death, that by any means possible, I may attain the resurrection from the dead.”

Reach out in desperation and take hold of the hem of His robe. Not desperate? Then you aren’t being honest. Let go of whatever idol is serving as your faulty flotation device and sink a little. You will find that drowning makes you thirst for Him like nothing else does. 

He promises that those who hunger and thirst for righteousness will be satisfied.  

Jesus is enough.