Being Enough (Power of Vulnerability: Part II)

After I watched the TED talk mentioned in part I of this post series, I became increasingly aware that the lesson that I lesson I needed to learn most was mentioned at the tail end of the lecture: I am enough.

I have always been a performance oriented person. Always scoring well above the average. Always musically talented. Always...well, you get the picture. And within my different arena's, often I was the one who outshone others. And I took my worth from those situations. Somehow, as many performance-oriented individuals do, I stopped looking at God for approval, and started looking at the teacher, the director, or the pastor. And, through all the noise, I was unable to really hear, until recently, "Josh. You are enough."

But not just enough. Enough because of Jesus. Which is, I believe, a relieving and lasting form of enough. Rather than constantly worrying about what I said, how people took it, what people are thinking a few hours after I said it, etc., etc., etc., I am learning to just be. I am beginning to enjoy the goodness that God has planted at my core. That his word and breath are living in me. And that because of this I am good. Made new. Made right. Made enough.