Grace is Sufficient

 "Grace is Sufficient" ~Shane and Shane

Phew, we're getting a lot of Shanes on this blog lately, but its cuz God's allowed them to make some really encouraging songs! =]

It was right before one of my midterms, and I was really stressing out; I hadn't stressed out like this for a while about school. I tried studying the entire day before, and nothing was inputting. The couple of hours before the test, for the life of me, I couldn't study at all. No focus, just stressed, thinking about how I didn't want to take that midterm. I just couldn't wait for everything to be over. In my stress, I decided to listen to this song.
 
What are you gonna say to God 
When all you do is pray to God 
To take the thorn away, 
And all you hear Him say is... 

"My grace...My grace is sufficient."

...wow...

I get so anxious sometimes. About my future, about how other people see me, about whether I'm doing a terrible or great job in leadership... And in my cries out to God, if I can take my eyes off my pain for one brief moment, He has reminded me: "My grace is sufficient. Sufficient for your stress, sufficient for your shortcomings, even in how you want to honor me; my grace is sufficient." I want to remember that His grace is enough in every situation. In the second verse, the speaker of the song is about to share the gospel, and even in those moments, its His grace for anything to happen. Let me sing it when I wake up, when I go to sleep, when I'm stressed, when I'm happy: "God, Your grace is sufficient!"

2 Corinthians 12:8-10
⁸ Three times I pleaded with the Lord to take it away from me. ⁹ But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me. ¹⁰ That is why, for Christ’s sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.

If you catch that line at the end, here's also the end of my midterm story. I took the test, and the world continued to turn. It didn't stop. Life continued, and in fact we got our test back, and the score was much higher than I had expected. Phewww... good job Tim! Continue life. Right?

What are you gonna say to God
When everything you prayed to God came your way
but you forgot to thank Him..
And all you hear Him say is: 

"My grace."

Sustaining me every single day, even when I don't realize it or when I'm so forgetful of Him. Man, thank God for everything He does, but most of all, praise You God for Your grace =).