All I Need

   It's a pretty cloudy and dismal looking day outside. However, it is warmer than it has been in a while and the hope of spring is in the air. I love spring. I love how everything comes alive after being dead all winter. I love how the dirty snow melts and uncovers the green grass beneath it. I love how the bare branches of trees begin to grow leaves again. I love how the birds sing and the sun shines brightly above, revealing all the beautiful creation below. To me spring is refreshing and a sign of restoration. It is a lovely time of year.
   Today I am reminded that God is all I need. During this busy week and at different stressful times in my life, I too easily forget that the things of this world do not hold any significance compared to my need for Christ. So many different distractions call our names every day, wanting our attention. We so often shift our gaze to these things and give them our time. I put aside my time alone with God to get things done, but these things don't fill me up at all. Instead, they leave me feeling empty or disappointed.
  It has taken me a long time to figure this out and I'm still on the journey; I will be for the rest of my life. But lately it has become so clear to me that the things that I put my time and energy into are the things that I consider important in my life. No matter what I say is important to me, my actions will clearly show what I value to be important in my life. I've been shaken by this reality at times. I've realized how much time I've put into senseless and worldly things. I've also realized how these things only bring a temporary happiness, but God's love for us is never ending. We have the gift of eternal joy in Him.

   I am being shown more and more every day my need for Jesus. As I spend more time with Him, He is reassuring me that He is all I need. The doubts, worries, fears, and expectations I have in this life are nothing in Him. He has overcome them and will show me the way when I am lost or confused. If I seek Him with all that I am, He will be there to love and guide me. He will be there to show me that despite what the world says I need, He is my supply. 

   When we live confidently in the fact that God is all we need, we are free to live a life without dependency on the world or its opinions of us. God's opinion is the only one that matters and He tells us that we are His children. He loves us more than we can comprehend. We are redeemed. We are His and we have a purpose on this earth because of Him.