Our sufficiency is from God. – 2 Corinthians 3:5
The world’s system is good at telling you that “you can do it,” or “if it’s to be, it’s up to me,” or even “God helps them that help themselves.” However, the apostle Paul tells the believers at Corinth they are not adequate unto themselves, that they cannot claim anything as having come from them, but that their sufficiency comes from the Lord Himself.
When God called Moses to go to Pharoah and demand the release of the Hebrew people, Moses demurred. To accomplish His plans for His people, God allowed Moses’ brother Aaron to be his “mouthpiece.” Moses may have missed God’s biggest blessing in his life by seeing only his own inadequacy and not the sufficiency of God.
Mature followers of Christ recognize their shortcomings when it comes to getting certain things done. People often do not have control over their circumstances, but not everyone recognizes when it is time to ask for help. It takes the believer with a proven walk with God to acknowledge that there is no need to be self-reliant, when God has promised all that a person needs will be provided.
Someone walking in God’s truth will know better than to say, “I’ve got this!” because they know that God is actually the One who’s got it. Rely today on God’s sufficiency and say, as Paul did in Philippians 4:13, “I can do all things through Him who strengthens me.”
Pray for Christians in Congress to be able to boldly acknowledge their sufficiency comes from the Lord.
Today’s Verse: 2 Corinthians 3:5
Not that we are sufficient in ourselves to claim anything as coming from us, but our sufficiency is from God,
All Scripture quotations and audio are from the ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®), copyright © 2001 by Crossway, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
Recommended for further reading: Exodus 3:7-10; 4:10-17
7 Then the Lord said, “I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters. I know their sufferings, 8 and I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land to a good and broad land, a land flowing with milk and honey, to the place of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites. 9 And now, behold, the cry of the people of Israel has come to me, and I have also seen the oppression with which the Egyptians oppress them. 10 Come, I will send you to Pharaoh that you may bring my people, the children of Israel, out of Egypt.”
10 But Moses said to the Lord, “Oh, my Lord, I am not eloquent, either in the past or since you have spoken to your servant, but I am slow of speech and of tongue.” 11 Then the Lord said to him, “Who has made man’s mouth? Who makes him mute, or deaf, or seeing, or blind? Is it not I, the Lord? 12 Now therefore go, and I will be with your mouth and teach you what you shall speak.” 13 But he said, “Oh, my Lord, please send someone else.” 14 Then the anger of the Lord was kindled against Moses and he said, “Is there not Aaron, your brother, the Levite? I know that he can speak well. Behold, he is coming out to meet you, and when he sees you, he will be glad in his heart. 15 You shall speak to him and put the words in his mouth, and I will be with your mouth and with his mouth and will teach you both what to do. 16 He shall speak for you to the people, and he shall be your mouth, and you shall be as God to him. 17 And take in your hand this staff, with which you shall do the signs.”
All Scripture quotations and audio are from the ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®), copyright © 2001 by Crossway, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
