You Are Enough - Part 2

YOU ARE ENOUGH

Forward: Have you ever struggled with not feeling good enough? Do you struggle with self-worth and feel like your life experiences and struggles have left you feeling alone and like you don’t matter? Take heart. God does not make useless things. No matter who you are, how messy your life is or what trials you’ve been through – YOU are loved by God and you alone are enough for Him.

Day 2:

Broken crayons still color.

Are you broken? 

Have you been through hardships or have you had relationships that have left you feeling broken and empty? Sometimes divorce, job loss, or devastating experiences can leave us…. broken. 

Sometimes we may feel like we can’t go on or we feel that we have been broken into so many pieces that there is no way we can be put back together and we feel useless.

I am here to tell you that broken crayons still color.

Just because a crayon breaks in half doesn’t deem it useless. A blue broken crayon will still color blue. A green broken crayon will still color green. Not white. Not pink. But green. 

Your brokenness; your broken pieces will still color, even if you are hurt so bad and even if you don’t think you can muster the strength to go on. 

Every piece of you, whether broken or not, has value. The experiences you have been through in life, although painful and hard, don’t decrease what you have to offer. 

The bible tells us, “The LORD is near to the brokenhearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit.”

You and your brokenness have worth. 

God is with you and can take your brokenness and use it for good. Others are broken, too, and your experiences can give hope and strength to many others.

Choose today to pick up your broken pieces and splatter paint this world with the colors of you. The world needs it. The world needs YOU.

Prayer: Lord, give me the courage to pick up the pieces of my brokenness and use them for good. Help me to see past the hurt and pain and to use my experiences to give hope to others. Help me to remember that broken crayons still color. In your name I pray, Amen.

Verses:

John 16:33  

 “I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.”

Isaiah 41:10  

 So do not fear, for I am with you;
    do not be dismayed, for I am your God.
I will strengthen you and help you;
    I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.

Isaiah 43:2  

 When you pass through the waters,
    I will be with you;
and when you pass through the rivers,
    they will not sweep over you.
When you walk through the fire,
    you will not be burned;
    the flames will not set you ablaze.

2 Corinthians 1:4 

  ⁴ who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves receive from God.