A Prayer for When You Feel Inadequate

A Prayer for When You Feel Inadequate Ever feel like you aren’t good enough? It’s a question that pops into everyone’s minds at some point. Are we enough? For our parents, our spouses, our children, our coworkers, our friends… After all, these people have often seen and experienced the worst of us. Plus, we sometimes fixate on the worst in ourselves. When these moments happen, we tend to think of the expectations falling on our shoulders and think: Please… pick someone else. Especially when it comes to wondering if we’re enough for the Creator of the Universe. If you’ve experienced this, add your name to a list of good company: Moses, Gideon, Esther, Jeremiah, Paul, and tons of others in the Bible. In fact, “God, I’m not sure that I’m cut out for this,” seems to be a much more common theme in the Bible than the, “Here I am, Lord!”s of figures like Samuel and Mary. In a broken world, it’s tempting to become preoccupied with our brokenness while forgetting that God can use every part of our beings for his purposes– our strengths just as well as our weaknesses. If you aren’t sure you’re cut out for… whatever it might be, here’s a scripture and prayer to remind you that with Jesus, what you have to offer right now is more than enough.