If We Could Have Coffee...: 30 Days of Heart-to-Heart Encouragement

by Holley Gerth

Instead of looking into mirrors to see what we wish could be different, let’s become mirrors for others that reflect God’s love and grace.

The reality is, none of us are enough on our own. We’re all weak and fallen, broken and helpless, sinners in need of a Savior. But our story doesn’t stop there. We do have a Savior. And he trades our nothing for his everything, our brokenness for his wholeness, our inadequacy for his identity. Are you perfect? No, ma’am. Neither am I. Nor is anyone else. But are you enough? Yes, ma’am. I am too. So is everyone who belongs to him. We are enough because Jesus is enough in us.

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You have been purchased at a great price. So treat yourself the way you would anything of great fragility and worth—with gentleness and care.

Can you open your hands, your heart, your calendar to One who promises he knows all of your days even before they begin?

Life is meant to be a glorious adventure, not a continual test in which one slipup means you fail.

You’re not made to walk a tightrope. You’re made to dance. And it’s not about getting the steps right. Instead it’s all about being close to your partner.

What if we don’t live up to our potential? Wouldn’t that be the biggest waste? And yet there is One who didn’t live up to his potential. He could have fed more hungry people. He could have healed more of the sick. He could have ended injustice once and for all. Yet Jesus didn’t. Have you ever thought about that? And he didn’t reach the end of his life and say, “I didn’t live up to my potential.” Instead he said, “It is finished” (John 19:30). In other words, “It was enough.”

Rest says to God and to the rest of the world, “I know I’m not in charge. And I trust the One who is.”