You are not invisible. God sees you. Not just the filtered version of you, but the weeping, hoping, questioning version too.

The Lord is close to the brokenhearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit.

-Psalm 34:18

Three questions:

1. How do I trust God when life doesn’t go my way?

2. Does my unseen, everyday, exhausting work actually matter to God?

3. What if deep down, I just don’t feel like I’m enough?

1. How Do I Trust God When Life Doesn’t Go My Way?

Trusting God doesn’t mean life gets easy. It doesn’t mean you get the marriage, the baby, the dream job, the happily ever after. It means this: Even when life falls apart, He holds you together.

Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways submit to Him, and He will make your paths straight.

-Proverbs 3:5-6

When you don't see it, He’s still working.

When you don’t feel it, He’s still faithful.

When you don’t understand it, He’s still good.

Trust isn’t seeing clearly, it’s knowing deeply the One who does.

2. Does My Work and Care for Others Actually Matter to God?

Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.

-Matthew 25:40b

"Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for human masters... It is the Lord Christ you are serving.

-Colossians 3:23, 24b

Your work matters. Because God measures your life not by how loud it is, but by how loved it is.

3. What If I Don’t Feel Like I’m Enough?

But he said to me, ‘My grace is sufficient for you, for My power is made perfect in weakness.’

-2 Corinthians 12:9a

Your “not-enoughness” is the very stage where God’s “enoughness” shines.

I can do all things through Christ who gives me strength.

-Philippians 4:13 (BSB)

People God loved, used, and called who weren’t “enough":

• Moses: a stuttering exile, hiding from his past.

• Gideon: a scared farmer, convinced he was the least important person in the least important family in the least important tribe.

• Peter: a fisherman who denied Jesus to a teenage girl by a fire.

• Mary Magdalene: a woman once shackled by seven demons, now sent as the first evangelist of the resurrection.

• Thomas: a disciple who doubted so hard he made memes for centuries.

God didn’t call them because they were enough. He called them because He is enough, and they trusted Him to be.

You say, "I’m not enough."

God says, "Perfect. My grace is."

You say, "I can’t."

God says, "I already have."

You say, "I’m broken."

God says, "You’re beloved."

You say, "I’m too weak."

God says, "My power is made perfect right there."

The Gospel is not about you pulling yourself together. The Gospel is not about you fixing yourself. The Gospel is not about you grinding harder, faking better, shining brighter. The Gospel is about Jesus, who stepped into our mess, our emptiness, our not-enoughness, and said: "I’ll carry it. I’ll cover it. I’ll redeem it. I’ll resurrect it."

Surely He took up our pain and bore our suffering…He was pierced for our transgressions, He was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was on Him, and by His wounds we are healed.

-Isaiah 53:4a, 5

God is not unjust; He will not forget your work and the love you have shown Him as you have helped His people and continue to help them.

-Hebrews 6:10

But God demonstrates His own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

-Romans 5:8

Make a Decision