No. You are not enough.

By this statement I don't mean you should run and hide, or stop reading this. No, I'm not attacking you or putting you down. Actually quite the opposite. Through exploring my faith and a lot (and I mean a lot of failed attempts) of perfection, I have learned the most liberating and comforting truth: I am not enough and neither are you.

I am not enough to please everyone. I am not enough to excel at everything I endeavor to complete. I am not enough to live a life completely free of sin and acceptance among all peers. I am not enough to constantly overcome the battle of voices in my mind that tell me I am not good enough or that I shouldn't try. Some days I succumb to them. I am not enough to battle the stereotypes of society. I am not enough, in the eyes of a culture so focused on physical beauty, to stand out among the rest.

And I don't need to be.

Because I have an almighty God. A God who loves me enough to send his only son to redeem me for all the things I am enough for. We are children who are broken and incomplete and it is only through Christ that I find solace in the thought that, despite the things I can't and will never measure up to, I am great. I am saved by the grace of a God who is pleased by me. A God that gives me the hope and strength to pursue these endeavors free from the anxieties of failure, something that is impossible with faith. He sent his only son to promise that a nation of broken people can still receive his salvation should we only believe in him.

My God asks me to cast my anxieties on him, to take the voices and buzzing of my whirring mind and remind myself that in his eyes, I am perfect. A God who would never let me face my fears alone. A God that spent time and effort in crafting the body I bear and reminds me that although I am not the size of a super model, I am no less beautiful. You and I stand out to God who with His grace blesses us by letting us rest in the fact that we so much more than merely "enough".

So no, I alone am not enough in this world. You alone are not enough in this world. But that is okay, we were not made to be. We were made in God's image, to be more than enough, to be set free. With God we are more than enough. You are so loved and you had to do nothing, you had to prove nothing to prove you were worthy enough for it. Do not let the weight of being enough tear you down, but instead let the love of your God despite this adversity liberate you in the truth that you never had to be in the first place.