The Sufficiency of Christ in Every Season

Throughout the year that was 2020 there has been a dark palor within the environs of many hearts and minds caused by a plethora of different problems and challenges. Most notably, the riots in several US cities, a worldwide pandemic which continues to rage, and a highly volatile and hate fueled election process.

The country, and the world, held its breath until midnight on Dec. 31st believing that the change of a calendar year would usher in bigger and better things. Well, COVID is still here, and now mutating, and the election process is now worse than before.

As I have been observing, praying and seeking answers to a lot of things, I have noticed something. There is a lack of sufficiency within our lives today.

One night while conducting an evangelistic meeting in the Salvation Army Citadel in Chicago, Booth Tucker preached on the sympathy of Jesus. After his message a man approached him and said, “If your wife had just died, like mine has, and your babies were crying for their mother, who would never come back, you wouldn’t be saying what you’re saying.”

Tragically, a few days later, Tucker’s wife was killed in a train wreck. Her body was brought to Chicago and carried to the same Citadel for the funeral. After the service the bereaved preacher looked down into the silent face of his wife and then turned to those attending.

“The other day a man told me I wouldn’t speak of the sympathy of Jesus if my wife had just died. If that man is here, I want to tell him that Christ is sufficient. My heart is broken, but it has a song put there by Jesus. I want that man to know that Jesus Christ speaks comfort to me today.”

We are much like this man who could not find any comfort for his soul after his wife’s death. We, and I am talking to mostly Christians at the moment, we have