Just some early morning thoughts from me to you…
“So God created human beings in his own image. In the image of God he created them; male and female he created them.”
Genesis 1: 27 (NLT)“For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved.”
John 3: 16-17 (NIV)“Don’t be afraid, for I am with you. Don’t be discouraged, for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you. I will hold you up with my victorious right hand.”
Isaiah 41: 10 (NLT)“And I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing.”
Genesis 12: 2 (ESV)“’Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in Me. I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in Me, and I in him, bears much fruit; for without Me you can do nothing.’”
John 15: 4-5 (NKJV)
It was the beginning of a life-changing moment for me.
It was all I could afford on an Airman’s salary serving in the United States Air Force during the Vietnam War. An engagement ring containing a marquis-shaped diamond that was only four-tenths of a carat in size.
I made a special trip from Dover Air Force Base on three days of leave with the hope of gaining her Daddy’s approval, to be able to then ask her. At twenty years of age, and looking like I was twelve, he graciously said “Yes.”
And, when I presented the ring to her one evening, in her parents’ home, in the small green bathroom in the bedroom area of the house, asking her to marry me, she also said “Yes.”
She was my best friend in high school, as I lived on my own and worked to put myself through school. We never dated, but she was always there for me, and I for her.
And looking back to that day when she said “Yes,” and then a year later confirming her “Yes” while God watched her say “I Do,” she saved my life.
And if you look closely, you can still see that small marquis-shaped diamond on her engagement ring, and the accompanying wedding band which I slid on her finger when she said her “I Do” fifty-nine years ago, on June 3, 1967.
Then, there was the beginning of another life-changing moment for me.
July 16, 1982 at 2:30 AM in the mountains of North Carolina, with my Bride’s support, when I asked Jesus Christ into my life, believing with all my heart what He did for me on the cross.
And in that moment, forty-four years ago, He saved my life for all eternity, and began the process of growing me into all He created me to be in my journey on earth.
Helping me to realize that only a life with Christ will ever be enough.
Stated another way, a life without Christ is—Never Enough.
In the classic song “Never Enough” written by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul, from the movie “The Greatest Showman,” these words remind us of that truth—
“…All the shine of a thousand spotlights,
All the stars we steal from the night sky,
Will never be enough, never be enough.
Towers of gold are still too little.
These hands could hold the world but it’ll—
Never be enough. Never be enough.
For me. Never. Never.
Never enough. For me. For me…”
Only a life with Christ will ever be enough.
And with Lynda by my side, my journey with Christ began and continues.
God knew what I needed and placed the gift of my Bride in my life to help me, to teach me, to love me without qualification, and to show me how to turn to the God without Whom life is—Never Enough.
A Bride who time-after-time with her Godly-grace, makes it clear to me, that without Christ, my life would be less today, and never all it was created to be, or could be.
Never enough—without Christ.
Never enough—without God’s gift of Lynda in my life, always pointing me to Christ, while walking along with me to Him.
Praise God. God blesses you, my precious Bride, to bless others.
And you do. Thank you, and Happy Anniversary.
In His Name–Scott
Enjoy this moment (and repeated moments) to listen to this powerful presentation by Loren Allred of “Never Enough.”
