BE FREE AND KNOW THE TRUTH OF WHO YOU ARE

2 Corinthians 3:5

“Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think anything as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God;”

Who or what are we basing our sufficiency on? Who or what should we be basing our sufficiency on?

By sufficiency I mean: what we think of ourselves as being “good enough.” The enemy will attack us with thoughts of not being “good enough.” It is probably a different area in life for each of us, but there is probably something that we feel that we can never live up to, whether it is our own or others expectations in who we are or how we do things.

If we are trying to live up to our own expectations, we are relying on ourselves to say who we are. We naturally want a certain security as individuals. We may start to think that what we do, how well we do it, and how good we feel about ourselves is what gives us our identities.

If we are trying to live up to others’ expectations, we are saying that others opinions are what make us who we are. We may try to impress others to make them think well of us, keep them from rejecting us, or to make them think that we are someone that we are not.

The only One in whom we can find true sufficiency, is Christ. We must come to the realization that who we are has absolutely nothing to do with us, or with others’ opinions. We can find peace and security in the fact that it is Christ who makes us who we are. It says in:

John 15:5

“I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.”

Think of how strong Jesus is as the Vine and how firm and sure we can be as His branches. We can only understand this surety when we completely base our sufficiency (or our level of being “good enough”) not on our own works, but on the work that God is doing in us.

We no longer have to deal with trying to live up to a certain expectation from ourselves or from those around us. We must claim the new creation that God has made us as His child and as He tells us in:

2 Corinthians 5:17

“Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.”

Old things and old ideas of who we are must be put behind us now that we know the truth! It says in:

John 8:32

“And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.”

Since we now know the truth of who we are, we are free from the burden of worrying about being “good enough.”

So the real question should be: Who are we in Christ? We are beyond “good enough” to the Lord, because our identity is no longer based on what the world, friends, the enemy, or we have to say. It is based on who Jesus is, and He IS sufficient in all things!