Enough

There are more treasures in the heart of God than you or I could ever count.  They sparkle in His infinite expanse like stars at midnight--without number, always increasing, always becoming more and more.  

Hearts that seek Him first find rest.  All the comfort and peace and love that a human heart could need is supplied in Jesus.  It's already there--we must simply receive it.  We must have faith, though, that His love is all our hearts will need.  Our doubts feed our anxiety, and keep us from rising above the waves to walk in His life.  If we will release our anxiety into His hands, choosing to believe that He is able to supply every need, we will start to receive His goodness.  It fills every crevice and closet of hunger.  

Those things we always suppose that we need for happiness--success, admiration, money, encouraging words--if we don't have them, but we have Jesus, we're fine.  If we have them and we have Jesus, we're fine.  The world's riches rest on top of the fullness, and they are sweeter because we are already full.  We do not fear their departure.  If, however, we have them and we do not have Jesus, our hearts behave in a very different way.  

A heart that withholds certain hungers from Jesus will never find satisfaction for those hungers.  We like to think, "Yes, Jesus is supposed to satisfy me--but shouldn't I have an encouraging word now and then, shouldn't I know a little taste of success, shouldn't I be recognized for a few accomplishments?"  We pridefully hold onto the needs because we are afraid Jesus won't fill them the way we want Him to.  No.  Jesus stands to meet those needs.  We will never need those things if Jesus has filled our hearts.  If we get them, they do not fill--they adorn.  And the adornment of the Bride is given to symbolize her completeness, not to complete her.

The heart that hungers will react to the world's fruit in a peculiar way.  The world's fruit only makes the hunger grow, and so the more money and compliments and admiration it gets, the bigger the hungry heart gets.  Then, when the heart doesn't get what it wants or thinks it deserves, the monster is too big to fight off.

We must always go to Jesus first.  It's not easier for rich people, beautiful people, married people, or people with children.  The flesh is the flesh, and it will always hate Jesus.  We must cast it aside and run, no matter how clumsy or foolish, into the arms of Jesus.  Know that He is enough.  Know that there is no hunger He cannot fill.

"You have made known to me the path of life, and You will fill me with joy in Your presence."