I AM: Enough Week Four - Day Three

By Central Women

Let’s start today with prayer.

God, break down every wall that is holding me back from believing and seeing what You say about us. Give us the courage to face the doubt and fear of never feeling like we are enough. Lord, would You remind us that You have called us just as we are and that You want to have an intimate relationship with us. God, shine through us and ignite in us that we are enough. Amen.

I am enough. I am enough. I am enough.

No matter how many times I say it, those three words are still hard to swallow. Why is that?

Comparison. We all face comparing ourselves to others.

Moms who show up at the playdate with all organic food, including hand-peeled carrots, (not the store-bought baby carrots). Meanwhile, you arrive with Happy Meals from McDonalds and sodas.

Neighbors whose yards look like they could grace the cover of a luxury home magazine.

Co-workers who always seem to have the newest and greatest pieces of technology.

Family members who have cars and vacations and lives that you would give anything for.

Exhausting. That’s what the comparison game is. Constantly finding faults in your life just to prove that others are in fact better than you. It’s just exhausting. Plus, it’s wrong and it’s heavy.

For whatever you are carrying today and whatever is burdening you down, please know you are not alone.

As long as we live on earth, we will face these feelings. But comparison doesn’t own us. Comparison doesn’t get to win. We may face comparing ourselves to others, but we have something our enemy doesn’t have. We can fight back and ultimately win because we have Truth. God’s Word.

“Each one should test their own actions. Then they can take pride in themselves alone, without comparing themselves to someone else, for each one should carry their own load.”

Galatians 6:4-5

“Now there is great gain in godliness with contentment, for we brought nothing into the world, and we cannot take anything out of the world. But if we have food and clothing, with these we will be content.”

1 Timothy 6:6-8

Stop what you are doing. Find a mirror, look yourself in the eyes and repeat this:

I am content and I am enough.

Go and do it right now!

This is not another quote to memorize but a bold charge to speak over your life.

“The tongue has the power of life and death, and those who love it will eat its fruit.” Proverbs 18:21

If we do not speak life over ourselves than who else will?

Friends, I am here to tell you that God wants us. He gets so excited to jump into our mess with us because we are letting Him in. He is willing to get in the boat with us. He has the power to calm the waves and winds to be still with just one word.

Here is where honesty kicks in. The concept of being “enough” is something I have struggled with for my entire life. It’s a repeated cycle. Something will happen that makes me feel that I don’t measure up and just like that, I’m in the comparison game. I know I am enough but I still throw great pity parties for myself, where I end up crawling into bed with a jar of raspberry gelato and a cry session while watching A Walk To Remember.

Sometimes I don’t pull out of my funk until a trusted friend calls me out of the lie that I am not enough. She speaks truth and I pick myself back up keep moving forward until another comparison games starts. It’s a repeated cycle that is never ending but I have come to this conclusion:

I am enough. Who I am is enough. What I do is enough. What I have to offer is enough.

Reflect:

What is your “comparison game” cycle? What triggers it, and what do you do to pull yourself out?

Write down three practical things you can do, starting today, to remind yourself daily that you are enough.