He Is Enough

My heart and mind were heavy and I couldn't sleep.  I kept waking up.  I decided to move to the couch as not to wake Wes up, not that I could wake him since he was sleeping rather soundly.

The deal is I couldn't sleep, because I needed to take the concerns that were keeping me awake to the Lord.  I needed to pray.  I moved to the couch and began praying, but I knew what I really needed to be doing was reading the Bible.

I was tired and wanted to express my concerns in prayer then go back to sleep.  I have this tendency rather than open up the Word of God, which is why I don't know the scriptures as I should.

Anyway, after spending some time in prayer and expressing my heart to the Lord then opening my eyes, heart, and mind to His leading I got up from the couch and went to my computer to look up today's YouVersion Bible reading plan. 

As I checked my email for the YouVersion email I noticed I had also received Lifeway's daily scripture and devotion. 

The first scripture passage in my YouVersion daily reading plan is Psalm 2.  The last sentence of verse 12 is:
Blessed are all who take refuge in him.  (ESV)

The scripture passage from the Lifeway devotion is 2 Timothy 1:12
   And that is why I suffer these things. But I am not ashamed, because I know the One I have believed in and am persuaded that He is able to guard what has been entrusted to me until that day. (HCSB)
and the devotional (courtesy of Open Windows) is this:
    We know the importance of placing our valuables and money in safe places. We put our important documents in the banks’ safety deposit boxes. The government insures our bank savings through the FDIC. 
   In today’s passage Paul wrote about entrusting something far more important than material things for safekeeping. He instructed Timothy not to be ashamed of the gospel or of his mentor Paul who was in prison. Paul described the gospel, its power to save, and its origin in the grace of God.
   Paul was suffering for the gospel, yet he was full of confidence and hope for the future based on the person of Jesus Christ, in whom he had believed. He had not placed his faith in some philosophy or creed. Because Paul knew Jesus intimately and personally, he was certain he could trust Jesus with the salvation of his soul. He knew it would be kept safely until that last day of accounting.

 Wow! I'm not in the midst of intense suffering, but I am struggling with some things.  I needed to be reminded to take refuge in Him and to have confidence & hope for the future based on Christ not on myself. 

After spending more time in prayer I decided since I was up and awake I would read a few blogs that I hadn't been to in a while.  I popped over to Priscilla Shirer's Going Beyond Ministry blog and the first post is Finding Enough, which I just skimmed over before checking out Angie Smith's Bring the Rain.  I skimmed down to her other posts and decided to check out The Tyranny of Choice, where I read her words: "He is enough." 

After reading those words I decided to go back to Finding Enough to actually read it. 

Yes, God is my refuge and he is enough for me.

In Him will I trust.