📖 "Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think of anything as being from ourselves, but our sufficiency is from God."
2 Corinthians 3:5
There are moments when God’s call stirs something so much bigger than us that it almost terrifies us. The bow feels too heavy, the target too far, the horse beneath us too wild. Yet He whispers: “Go.”
Scripture reminds us that our confidence is not found in our own abilities, but in Him.
📖 "Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think of anything as being from ourselves, but our sufficiency is from God." — 2 Corinthians 3:5 (NKJV).
The Hebrew word for “sufficient” in this verse carries the sense of adequacy, competence, and ability. Paul reminds us that none of this is self-made. God Himself is the One who makes us able.
Like Moses at the burning bush, Gideon hiding in the winepress, or Jeremiah doubting his youth, we wrestle with feelings of inadequacy. Yet God delights to show His strength through our weakness. He doesn’t call the qualified — He qualifies the called.
Every arrow of faith He places in our hands is lit with the fire of His Holy Spirit, aimed straight at the assignment He has chosen for us. You are not sent unprepa
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