Wide. Long. High. Deep.

So many times I've wondered if what I'm doing at school is really making an impact. Am I doing enough for my little friends outside of school, teaching enough life skills, giving enough grace, or challenging them enough? Am I doing enough? So I came to this conclusion: I will never be able to do enough, Jesus will do that, and THAT is enough.

The Lord reminded me of this simple truth. It is not on my own wisdom, strength, or power that I go about day to day life in the classroom. It is by His great mercy, love, and power that I am able to pour out my life onto others.

One of my sweet friends gave me a new book to read for my birthday (Learning to Love by Heidi and Rolland Baker). It's filled with examples of how the Holy Spirit is able to move through us and affect a nation for His glory. Hearts are being turned to Him and He gets all the honor, glory, and praise. Let this be the same in Charlotte, North Carolina. In Jesus' Name!

Anyways, this part of the book really hit hard with what I was thinking about in regards to school.

"When your mind is too big and your heart is too small, you cannot get anywhere. You cannot fly, let alone soar.

"I tell you the truth, if you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, 'Move from here to there,' and it will move. Nothing will be impossible for you."

                                                                                                       Matthew 17:20

Where does this kind of faith that soars come from? It comes from love, from knowing who Jesus is, from understanding what He thinks of you and realizing who He has made you to be. When you are in love you have power. When you start to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, you start to get full of God and full of the understanding that whatever He asks you to do, you can do; that wherever He asks you to go, you can go. You can live on the edge, because even in the darkest places, light is waiting there for you. His love, His light in you and me. Passion: It makes us unstoppable."

I love this. What a gentle, beautiful reminder that I do not have to be enough. I won't be enough on my own - ever. However, thanks be to God who makes me enough. It is by His love and mercy that I am enough. Daily I am learning more and more about His precious character. I am understanding what He thinks of me, and realizing who He has made me to be. 

When I understand His love for me; His long, wide, high, deep love, then, and only then, am I able to be enough to my little friends at school. "...because even in the darkest places, light is waiting there for you. His love, His light in you and me."

Father God. Thank you for this reminder. Use me as You wish at school and help me to set aside my desires for Yours. Thank you for being the light waiting for me. 

Amen.