These last couple of weeks, the following lyrics have been playing on repeat.
So let all that I am
Be consumed with who You are
All the glory of Your presence
What more could I ask for?
The phrase, “What more could I ask for?” is such an apt phrase to describe the tension that December holds.
Everywhere we look—especially since we’re in the throes of Black Friday, Bright Friday, Cyber Monday, Happy Tuesday, or whatever it’s called now—we are being conditioned to believe that we don’t have enough. Even this past week, I went online to make sure that I didn’t “miss” any deals. And after browsing for a bit, I ended up buying batteries on Amazon because they were 30% off.
Did I really need them? Perhaps in a month or so, but definitely not now…
When we are consumed with the glory of God’s presence, there is nothing more we need. There is nothing more we have to ask for.
That little voice inside that says we don’t have enough will fade away because our God is a good Father! When we ask for bread, He doesn’t give us stones. When we are consumed with the glory of God’s presence, everything else fades in comparison, since Jesus is enough.
He is MORE than enough.
Is this true for you? Or do you feel that tension of not having “enough?”
If so, take a few minutes to read through these passages and worship our King of Kings and Lord of Lords with this song, “With You.”
“Therefore I tell you: Don’t worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Isn’t life more than food and the body more than clothing? Consider the birds of the sky: They don’t sow or reap or gather into barns, yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Aren’t you worth more than they? Can any of you add one moment to his life-span by worrying? And why do you worry about clothes? Observe how the wildflowers of the field grow: They don’t labor or spin thread. Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was adorned like one of these. If that’s how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and thrown into the furnace tomorrow, won’t he do much more for you — you of little faith? So don’t worry, saying, ‘What will we eat? ’ or ‘What will we drink? ’ or ‘What will we wear? ’ For the Gentiles eagerly seek all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be provided for you. Therefore don’t worry about tomorrow, because tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own. (Matt 6:25-34 CSB)
“Our Father in heaven,
your name be honored as holy.
Your kingdom come.
Your will be done
on earth as it is in heaven.
Give us today our daily bread.
And forgive us our debts,
as we also have forgiven our debtors.
And do not bring us into temptation,
but deliver us from the evil one. (Matt 6:9-13 CSB)