Living in a culture of…

Written By @3130beloved
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…never enough.

Someone asked if it’s truly possible to be content in a culture of ‘Never Enough’? 🤔

For me, the voices of never enough + discontentment + grumbling sound like, “You could have done more today. Your lifestyle looks different than the average American working from home so you should work harder. If you had one more job (on top of the 4 I already have), then you’d be more efficient”.

I personally do not care to be perfect, but I DO care to use God’s gift of time well.

I care to be where He wants me to be, when he wants me to be there!

In order to do that well, I need to function out of a place of contentment.

The place where ✨Jesus✨ says, “I am enough. I am sufficient. I am worthy. I am complete. I am accepted.”

The more I sink into His truths about myself, the easier it is to deflect the world’s lies.

Whenever I hear those voices of discontentment, I think, “Wait but Jesus says this about me according to His scriptures but you’re telling me the opposite so you’re lying to me then.”

We have the choice to buy it or to stop, ponder the thought, and test it.

We’re never really discontent until we see someone’s life look different than ours so then we compare.
Comparison truly is the thief of joy, but the eye cannot tell the arm that it doesn’t need it.

We all need each other to be good at what we are not.

I think that’s why the Lord gave us different gifts… so we can adore his intention for creation to ALL work together.

So we can stop grasping for control of the things that we cannot control + striving for gifts that we are not meant to excel in + or even worrying about the future and comparing ourselves to what our “future selves” look like.

God says that today is sufficient in its troubles so to not be anxious with what is for tomorrow bc it could look totally different as our hearts change each day realigning with the Lord.

He also says that His promises will not return void in Isaiah 55 and when we surrender our lives to the lord, he says he will NEVER leave us.

He loves us with an everlasting love so yes, it is possible to live in a society of “never enough” when you simply know that it’s not true. 🙅🏻

We are ALWAYS enough in Christ for He’s our advocate🙏

@3130beloved

I’ve always hated these, “Bio” or “About me” sections— so awkward.

But… after living 25 years lost in my agnostic world chasing my own fame, glory, comfort and will I was brought to my end. After the death of my mom, ending the most manipulative & emotionally abusive relationship, a lifestyle of drug addiction, 2 abortions, and finding myself empty while standing in the middle of what the world says is “bliss”… I reached the end of myself and the beginning of seeing Jesus’ light beaming down on me.

I met His Holy Spirit for the first time at a Halloween rave called, “Day of the Dead.” To this day, I still think this is one of the darkest places to be on our planet. I raved and popped pills to numb my pain, to avoid my fears and to suppress my sadness. I was in the middle of bobbing my head and raising my arms to the electro house music blasting in my ears when images of skeletons came on the TV monitors and the weak spirit within me has a knee-jerk reaction to put my arms down. “Whoa! I don’t worship that!”, I thought. “Wait, what do I know about worship?” Now looking back, there God was! The beginning of my site for Him.

A year later, I followed my brother (his good looking friend) to church (@realityLA). I don’t remember the sermon but I heard God for the first time when worship began singing, “Spirit lead me where my trust is without borders. Let me walk upon the waters wherever you would call me.”

I LOST my mind.

It was an overwhelming & LAVISHINGGG upon me of, "Hi precious girl. I see you. I know you. I’ve been here. I know your pain. I know your loss. I know you are lost. I know you’re angry, specifically with me because you lost your mom and you think your life is unredeemable but my beloved, I’ve been coming after you because you are mine.” I cried the hardest I’d ever cried in my life because my entire being just knew… This. Is. God. This. Is. The. Master. Of. The. Universe— and He wants me? Broken, selfish, ugly me?

I soon followed this good looking friend of my brothers to a community group. There is where I met the love of God through His people as they accepted me, fed me, welcomed me, and took me in as family despite my lifestyle that rebelled against everything they believed. One year later, I said, “Fine. I’ll follow until you fail just like everything else has.” Well… He hasn’t failed nor broken any promise yet. ;) My choice to accept Jesus as my Lord, savior and new identity has brought me more freedom than I could have ever fathomed. I didn’t know what I was living for or aiming at but God truly lit up every shadow, broke down every wall, shattered every lie and came after me.

Salvation belongs to the Lord.

As the world kicks and screams trying to shout their way to justice, peace and unity on their own terms right now, may the roots of our identity in Christ grow deeper each day together as one body; as one family.

“Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the wicked,
nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of scoffers;

but his delight is in the law of the Lord,
and on his law he meditates day and night.

He is like a tree planted by streams of water
that yields its fruit in its season, and its leaf does not wither.
In all that he does, he prospers.

The wicked are not so,
but are like chaff that the wind drives away.

Therefore the wicked will not stand in the judgment,
nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous;
for the Lord knows the way of the righteous,
but the way of the wicked will perish.”

https://3130beloved.com
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