This series of devotions are focused around Soren Kierkegaard’s “Christian Discourses etc.” The biblical text to consider during these devotions is: Matthew 6:24-34.
How then does the bird live? Well, it is God who every day metes out to the bird the definite measure, i.e. enough; but it never occurs to the bird that it has or might wish to have more than enough. What God gives every day is…enough. But the bird does not desire to have either more or less than enough.
I think it is quite unusual to be satisfied with enough. First of all, there are so many influences in our lives that try to tell us that enough is something more or something other than what we have and…what may be enough. Enough is not merely a personal concept. As Christians, we look to see what enough for us is as individuals and yet we also look to the larger human community. Enough extends to the community as we know it. Years ago that may have been our village. Some may only be able to see the need for enough for their family or their nation. And yet, as we become more and more of a global community we must contemplate what is to be considered enough for all. When we contemplate such a reality as “enough” we really must contemplate that in our own lives. We are called to be stewards and called to care for the world. And yet, our God is the one who provides enough for all…we are instruments within that system of hopefulness.
Connection: What difference does it make to give serious consideration to the notion of what may be enough and not too much in each of our lives?
Lord, you give us the bread of life and you call us to share our lives with those around us as though we are the bread that is being passed on to other so that all may have enough. Give us the vision to see the way of you blessed gifts to the world so that we may enter boldly into the ongoing care of all your children. Amen.
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