What Is Sufficient?

"Isn't This Enough?" Threnody asked.

There are a few ways to answer, and it's hard to pick one. Isn't what enough? The world? What is the world without someone to share it with? Friends? Family? Really, what is enough?

How many people are searching for "enough?" They look for it in drugs, in alcohol, in food, in relationships, in health, in stuff, in sleep, in peacefulness. The search for contentment is everywhere. The search for just a little bit more, just one other thing and then I'll be satisfied.

Why is that? Because the world is not enough. We were created for more. We were created for fellowship with God Himself. The world cannot compare to that. It is beautiful and glorious and enjoyable and lovely and desirable. But God is more beautiful, more lovely, more glorious, more enjoyable, more desirable than anything this world contains and all of it put together. How can I know that? One, I've experienced both. Two, because He made the world. You can't make something that is greater than you by virtue of that fact that without you, it could not exist. You are automatically greater than anything you make. How silly if you listened to Vivaldi's "Four Seasons" and thought that the music was greater than Vivaldi himself. It's an impossibility.

No, the world is not enough to satisfy us, but it is enough for something. The Bible tells us that the world, what it declares to us about God (Psalm 19 - "the firmament showeth HIS handiwork"), is enough to condemn us. We OUGHT to be able to get it from looking at the world around us, but we can't. We're blind and dead, and so we look at the world and say, "What a beautiful world!" and think nothing of the One Who fashioned it with the word of His mouth. We're spiritually dead. That's why He spoke in the OT; that's why Christ came; that's why He gave us the Bible. Because without His intervention, the world is only enough to condemn us.

It's not that people must go searching for something higher, something better. It's that the entire world is yelling at us that there IS something higher, something better. It would be like a ten year-old only ever eating rice cereal like they have been since they were a baby and their parent is saying, "This is better; it tastes better and it's better for you." And the child just keeps eating only the rice cereal. It's not that the rice is bad - it's good! - but there's so much more, so much better.

The world is incredible; the world is a gift from God that can tell us so much about Him. But only God is enough. Only God satisfies; only God is sufficient.