The Ministry of Life - Part III - Adequacy

A Covenant of Adequacy

We see ourselves in the mirror every day. We know our flaws and our faults better than anyone. As such, is there anyone among us that never feels inadequate? We lose our tempers. We honk our horns at that slowpoke in front of us while hurrying to church on Sunday morning. We allow our godly concern for another to seep over the line into gossip. Not a day goes by that we don't "blow it" to some degree. Adequate? Us?

God's promise to us is one of adequacy -- not in ourselves, but in Him. Second Corinthians 3:6 says He "also made us adequate as servants." Not servants of self or servants of the flesh, but servants of the new covenant -- the promise of the exchanged life: filthy rags exchanged for radiant robes.

If we try to fulfill this ministry on our own merit, we will fail and we will fall short. But His promise to us is not to make us adequate, but to be our adequacy.... Only in Him -- by His Spirit, in His strength -- will we be able to serve others as He has called us to do.