GOD-SUFFICIENCY-OUR
For His part,
God forgives our sins, reveals His glory, rescues us from our heart of
disbelief with its life of disobedience, and brings us back to Himself again
and again so that we might learn to live by faith in His promises. For our
part, Abraham, as the "father" of the faithful (Rom. 4:16-17), is the
beginning of a people who respond by learning over a lifetime to look to God
alone to meet their needs.
The God of Promise and the Life of
Faith. Crossway Books, 2001, p. 77.
Nothing makes
God more supreme and more central in worship than when a people are utterly
persuaded that nothing not money or prestige or leisure or family or job or
health or sports or toys or friends nothing is going to bring satisfaction to
their sinful, guilty, aching hearts besides God.
John Piper
God's Passion for His Glory, p. 41.
Everything
without God is pathetically inferior to God without everything.
Sam Storms
One Thing, Christian Focus, © Enjoying God Ministries, 2004, p. 38, www.enjoyinggodministries.com.
Used by Permission.
He who has
God and everything else has no more than he who has God only.
C.S. Lewis
The Weight of Glory.
One of the
Old Testament names of God is El Shaddai, meaning the All-Sufficient One. It is a name
rich with meaning. Those who worship Him in Spirit and in truth find Him
adequate for every necessity of life. They do not need any supplementary
experience, a stronger dose of His redemption, or any other spiritual or
emotional accoutrements. God has given to every believer abundant grace that is
utterly sufficient to fulfill our deepest longings, our most intense cravings, our most profound needs every human requirement.
John MacArthur
Epilogue:
Perfect Sufficiency from Our Sufficiency in Christ, 1991, Crossway Books, a
division of Good News Publishers, Wheaton Illinois 60187, www.crosswaybooks.org. p. 261.
We think it
safer and more effective to look to other people to relieve our emptiness. In
some cases, when love is sweet, we might even feel that we have found it.
Sadly, this feeling misleads us. It reinforces our sinful idea that people
might be the answer to our need, so we pursue them with an obsession. The love
that we desire, however, can only be found in the living God.
Edward T. Welch
When People are Big and God is Small, P&R
Publishing, 1997, p. 172. Used by Permission.
The sovereign
God wants to be loved for Himself and honored for
Himself, but that is only part of what He wants. The other part is that He
wants us to know that when we have Him we have everything we have all the
rest.
A.W. Tozer
God hath in
Himself all power to defend you, all wisdom to direct you, all mercy to pardon
you, all grace to enrich you, all righteousness to clothe you, all goodness to
supply you, and all happiness to crown you.
Thomas Brooks
A Puritan Golden Treasury, compiled by I.D.E. Thomas, by permission of Banner of Truth, Carlisle, PA. 2000, p. 126.