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We aren't, but we are
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Tuesday, July, 06, 2010
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by John Fischer
This is the secret to the adequacy question: We aren't, but we are.
Are you adequate to be the kind of person God meant you to be? Are you adequate to be a good husband, or a good wife? Are you adequate to have an effect on people? Will the people you know be different because they know you?
Are you the person for this, or is it someone else? And if it's not now, then when? When will you be ready to be used by God? What do you have to do to get ready?
Here's the answer: You are. You are adequate to be and to do all that God requires of you… now. However, your adequacy will come through an awareness of your inadequacy. You are inadequate if you are looking to yourself to come up with the goods, but adequate if you are looking to God. So, in a way, the answer to the initial question: "Who is adequate to be the kind of person God meant you to be?" is that we aren't, but we are.
Now is that perfectly clear?
Here it is again… "Not that we are competent in ourselves to claim anything for ourselves, but our competence comes from God. He has made us competent as ministers of a new covenant…" (2 Corinthians 3:5-6 NIV)
There you have it, the last and only biblical word on adequacy is simply: we aren't, but we are. And the only way this works is to be constantly aware of both these things at the same time.
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