How to Trust That God Gives More Than Enough

It comes like a whisper across frozen ground: God’s grace always gives more than enough.

That’s how it went down for the Israelites wandering forty years in a bleak, mundane land. Forty years of the same. Forty years of walking in circles and arriving again and again in the exact place.

Sometimes January can feel like you’re right outside the Promised Land. Not you, not time playing like a record on repeat.

I get it. I’ve got delayed dreams too. Things I wish I’d been able to fix. Prayers not answered the way I thought would be best.

I can be like the Israelites, discontent with what God provides. Convinced I can handle it better. Also afraid I can’t.

God’s promise-laden answer to the Israelites is the same to us—self-wranglers, self-pitiers, self-justifiers. We who like to control the where, when, and how. We who are quick to complain, compare, criticize.

My grace is more than enough.

More than enough for the boring days.

More than enough when it’s too loud or too quiet,

too small or too much to clean.

Too late, too little, too lowly.

More than enough for the grief that engulfs.

More than enough for the rejection that lingers.

More than enough when you don’t know the next step.

More than enough when everything you hold breaks apart.

His grace gave them more than enough.

Psalm 78:25 TPT

Ask me how I know, and I’ll walk you back a few verses to what happened right before “God’s] grace gave them more than enough” (Psalm 78:25 TPT). We’ll read how “they turned away from faith and walked away in fear.” Then that “they failed to trust his power to help them when he was near” (Psalm 78:22 TPT).

Sound uncomfortably like our own stories?

But God. As the passage reads,

Still He spoke on their behalf and the skies opened up; the windows of heaven poured out food, the mercy bread-manna. The grain of grace fell from the clouds. Humans ate angels’ food—the meal of the mighty ones. His grace gave them more than enough!
Psalm 78:23-25 TPT

Still. There’s a lot in that word. It’s God and His never-changing nature, giving what we don’t deserve. Filling our hands with more than we can hold. Whispering promises only He can keep. Coming through on time, every time.

The Never-Changing Nature of God

If last year taught me anything, it’s that God never changes. Sometimes He just isn’t done yet, and in the middle of the story, doubt can creep in and whisper, “God’s actually not good. Not always. Not in this.”

Maybe that’s where you are today, stuck in the bleary middle, leaving tears and knee imprints on the floor, trying to reconcile what you see and what you know to be true. You feel like you’re stuck in a holding pattern. It doesn’t make sense yet. Your list of complaints is long and honest.

Fear will clamp tight. Tell you it’s unfair or you’re inferior. Listen long and it will consume you.

I wonder if that’s how Moses felt when God commissioned him to return to Egypt and lead His people to freedom. Never mind that God’s plan already included rescuing Moses from a death sentence, bobbing him down a river in a basket and into the hands of an Egyptian princess, being raising by his Hebrew mother then adopted into the Egyptian royal family. Never mind that God preserved his life again when he overstepped, tried to write the story himself. In Moses’s self-estimation, he fell short.

Maybe you can relate to his imposter syndrome:

Please, Lord, I am not a talented speaker. I have never been good with words. I wasn’t when I was younger and I haven’t gotten any better since You revealed Yourself to me. I stutter and stammer. My words get all twisted.
Exodus 4:10, The Voice

Even after God assures Moses that He would stay with him and tell him what to say, Moses blurts out, “Please Lord, I beg you to send Your message through someone else, anyone else” (Exodus 4:13, The Voice).

But Moses wasn’t talking to a Too Small God or a Halfway Powerful God. His conversation is with the More Than Enough God. The God who was and is the same, abundantly generous and infinitely good God.

Moses’s self-doubt didn’t slow God down. The Israelites’ discontent and narrow vision didn’t stop God from taking care of them. And your missteps don’t deter God either.

More Than Enough (Because It’s Not For Just Us)

Read fast through the Old Testament stories*, and it strikes you how the God who wipes your tears and welcomes your honesty is the exact same God who walked with Adam and Eve in the garden, covenanted with Abraham, saw Hagar when she felt forgotten, wrestled with Jacob, showed up as a ram tangled in a thicket, a burning bush, a glory-cloud, a pillar of fire. You get a fresh perspective on how big God is—and how tender and able He is.

Every page reminds you that God knows what He’s doing. His plan is not second-rate or an after-thought. It’s uncontainable grace, because He doesn’t want us to keep it to ourselves.

God gives uncontainable grace because He doesn’t want us to keep it to ourselves_Twyla Franz quote for Begin Within: A Gratitude Series

The Old Testament God of More Than Enough is one and the same as the New Testament God who spoke these famous words:

All you thirsty ones, come to me! Come to me and drink! Believe in me so that rivers of living water will burst out from within you, flowing from your innermost being just like the Scripture says!”
John 7:37-38 TPT

His plan? Fill the earth with unmistakable evidence of a God who loves and draws near to us. That’s why He gives more grace than we can contain. It’s not meant for just us.

God writes stories meant to be shared and remembered. That’s the story He’s writing in your life right now. It may feel like the road circles nowhere or you’re ill-equipped to follow His lead. But He’s not done, and He’s asking you to trust that in the right time, there will be grace so abundantly it drips from your hands and runs right into the people around you.

Let’s pray.

Thank you for being a kind and generous God. Help me to trust that you know best even when life doesn’t make sense from where I’m standing.

* I’m taking Mary Demuth’s 90 Day Bible Reading Challenge. Grab the book (affiliate link), and join us here.

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