Jesus Is Enough for Every Storm You Face
It’s easy to assume we have fear, grief, or suffering figured out, only to stumble into a different kind of storm and realize how many layers of understanding still wait to be peeled back. In these times, we need to know that Jesus is enough for every storm.
There are layers to hope as well.
Just when you start to believe in a deeper kind of hope, life throws you a harder curveball than you ever foresaw as your lot in life.
You find yourself desperate for a deeper sense of understanding.
Hope in eternity feels too far away, and you need hope in something here and now.
You need hope that’s more palpable than the words you scribbled in a journal when you thought you knew what loss and pain entailed.
Jesus Is Enough
I thought I knew all about hope when we went through a long year of loss and grief.
However, my understanding had to go deeper when the next year met us with even greater storms.
It met us like the dawn of a very different kind of day upon a lake we thought we understood, a place we thought we knew inside and out.
Sometimes there’s simply no way of preparing for the season that falls upon your lap. The best you can do is take a deep breath and ask the Father to help you peel back another layer of understanding.
As we stepped into a brand new season of trust and faith, I found myself wrestling with everything I knew about how to have hope that really can’t be shaken. I also discovered a remarkable truth: Jesus is enough.
Jesus revealed himself to me and showed me that he would carry me through the storm.
He gave me hope. He lifted my head on the darkest days.
If you are in need of hope today, here are some truths to hold onto.
When You Need to Know That Jesus Is Enough
1. You can trust that Jesus is enough because lasting hope is personal.
I referenced the words of Hebrews 6:19 last week, which reads, “This hope we have as an anchor of the soul, a hope both sure and steadfast and one which enters within the veil” (NASB).
We looked at the purpose of an anchor: to draw a vessel to its security.
Let’s pause to examine the last six words of this verse: “hope which enters within the veil.”
Before Jesus died on the cross, there was a four-inch-thick curtain separating the holiest part of the Tabernacle from the rest of the structure. Only one priest entered this holy part of the Tabernacle (and only once every year).
The priest entered on behalf of God’s people to make atonement and pay the price for their sins. It has been said that he entered with a rope around his leg so that just in case the glory of God killed him, his body could be pulled out.
I’d been following Jesus for quite some time when I discovered one of the startling events that took place the moment Jesus died on the cross: The veil of the temple was torn in two!
God reached down and tore the veil when Jesus paid the price for our sins. He was showing us that the annual tradition of sending a priest to make atonement was over. He was inviting us all to enter the holiest place of a face-to-face relationship with him, all because Jesus made a way. This leads us to our second truth about holding onto hope:
2. Jesus is enough because lasting hope involves face-to-face interaction.
When the bottom falls out from life, nothing short of face-to-face interaction with Living Hope will suffice.
Hope in Jesus is intimate, personal, and current.
It is for today.
He waits for you to run into his arms today, making hope about an eternal relationship that begins in the here and now (see John 17:3). The veil was torn. Your Living Hope invites you to draw near, and he stands with open arms.
3. Jesus is enough because he is a secure place to fix your eyes.
Alexandar MacLaren writes, “Just as when a man’s eye is fixed upon the reddening dawn of the morning sky, all the trees and objects between him and it are toned down into one uniform blackness, so when we have that great light shining beyond the earthly horizon all the colours of the objects between us and it will be less garish, and they will dwindle into comparative insignificance.”
Jesus endured suffering by fixing his eyes on the joy set before him (see Hebrews 12:2).
Friend, Jesus is your ever-present source of joy. We overcome difficult circumstances by fixing our eyes on his ever-shining light instead of the hardships at hand.
4. Jesus is an anchor outside your strength and human resources.
An anchor within the hull of a ship will serve no purpose in a raging storm. In the same way, hope fixed upon what I can control will falter when the hardest storms strike. We need to fix our hope in an anchor outside ourselves.
Albert Barnes writes, “Hope accomplishes for the soul the same thing which an anchor does for a ship. It makes it fast and secure. An anchor preserves a ship when the waves beat and the wind blows, and as long as the anchor holds, so long the ship is safe, and the mariner apprehends no danger.”
Christ is the anchor of stability and security in the storms of life. I am secure when I keep my eyes on his light, rest in Word, and seek his face continually. Click To TweetAre you facing a storm? Hold onto this promise: Jesus is enough. He offers lasting hope. Lasting hope has nothing to do with the circumstances surrounding you. We find lasting hope in Jesus. He promises to stay with us always. 
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