Even for This

The envelope in the mailbox caused my heart to pound with anticipation. For weeks I had been waiting for a reply from a publishing house that had expressed interest in my manuscript.

But my heart fell as I read the words. Another rejection! And this one had sounded so hopeful. I had believed that God was finally making a way for my novel to be birthed into the world.

I don’t know about you, but it’s easy for me to question God, to think my way is better, to think that He made a mistake. Through my anger and disappointment, He kept putting a gentle word in my mind, “Even for this, I am enough.”

While selling a novel is a small thing in the scheme of life, it is still a hard thing for me. After all, it represents countless months and years of effort. And while it isn’t the end of the world, I still need to know that He is enough. Whatever the future holds for my novel, God is enough to carry me through.

A wise person once said that if you tell the truth, you put your troubles in the past. If you tell a lie, you push your troubles into your future. The truth is that only one publishing house has rejected my novel. The truth is that I have more work to do and that God will help me do it.

Friend, I don’t know what you are going through but I know one thing. Even for this, He is enough. Let Him help you through today’s trial.

“For God did not give us a spirit of timidity, but a spirit of power, of love, and of self discipline.” 2 Timothy 1:7 (NIV)