​Perspective is everything.

As a small child, you “help” your parents. The definition of “help” is rather elastic, of course.

Your dad is lifting a heavy box, you toddle up and lend a hand, suitably rewarded with gushing proclamations of “how strong” you are.

You get the picture.

We all know who really bears the burden.

In later life, our successful lifting happens in other ways: ministry, business, family, society.

And somehow the same childish view that we are the ones hefting the weight persists into adulthood.

In reality…

“…we are not sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God;” (2 Corinthians 3:5 KJV)

Sufficient: hikanos, hik-an-os´; (to arrive); competent (as if coming in season), i.e. ample (in amount) or fit (in character): — able, + content, enough, good, great, large, long (while), many, meet, much, security, sore, sufficient, worthy.

Competency comes from God.

Character is derived from Him.

Ability, contentment, security and worth?

All from the One who fitted you for freedom.

You ‘arrive’ carried by a greater power.

Jesus is your sufficiency in all things.

Your bare armed partner in life to lift the weight.

Never forget that.

Selah.