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Sufficiency to Infinity

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by Darla Butterfield January 18th, 2025


Has anyone asked you what your word for the New Year is? When I saw this question floating around Facebook, my initial reaction was, “Can I just pick a number for the year? I might even choose the number 2025…there’s lots of amazing things about it.” (Yes, I will always love numbers and math. God is the author of those, too.)


Yet, when reading through a list of potential words for the year, one stuck with me and continues to come back to mind, so I’m going along with the trend of choosing a word for the year and it’s “sufficient.”


What I’ve realized is that when worry or fear creep into my thoughts, it’s because I think something is lacking, whether it’s time, finances, energy, or my own abilities. I see the measuring stick of what I think would be sufficient and where I perceive things will fall short. Then God reminds me that He is sufficient.


We see a theme all throughout Scripture of God’s sufficiency. He provided daily manna in the wilderness, reminding the people that He would sustain them. In the New Testament, we see that His grace is sufficient. In 2 Corinthians 12:9 Paul writes,


“But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me.”


The book of Hebrews shows Jesus’ powerful word that sustains all things, illustrating His complete sufficiency.


“The Son is the radiance of God’s glory and the exact representation of his being, sustaining all things by his powerful word. After he had provided purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty in heaven.” Hebrews 1:3


While we may want to know how everything will turn out in our lives and how God will provide for us in future years to come, Jesus reminds us in the Lord’s Prayer to pray for our “daily bread,” not a year’s worth of bread at a time.


God’s sufficiency may not line up with our view of what we think it should look like, but His promises are true. When our gaze is only focused on what surrounds us on earth, we lose sight of the One who holds it all in His hands.


Paul also writes in 2 Corinthians 4:15-18

“All this is for your benefit, so that the grace that is reaching more and more people may cause thanksgiving to overflow to the glory of God.

Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day. For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen, since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.”


When our All-Sufficient God shows up in our lives, His grace pours through us, causing us to praise Him in thanksgiving, overflowing to the glory of God! You can trust that He is sufficient, and He is kind. His abilities stretch beyond the limits of time and space. When those thoughts of “what if…” or moments where you think you won’t have enough come, lean into the grace of God. Replace the lies of the enemy with His Truth.  


…and just in case anyone was wondering, here is some of the beauty of the number 2025…

2025 = (20 + 25)^2 

2025 = 2^2 + 4^2 + 6^2 + 7^2 + 8^2 + 16^2 + 24^2 + 32^2 

2025 = 1^3 + 2^3 + 3^3 + 4^3 + 5^3 + 6^3 + 7^3 + 8^3 + 9^3

2025 = (1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 + 6 + 7 + 8 + 9)^2

…but there is no limit to God’s sufficiency! It goes on for infinity!




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