Is God Enough?

I love the heart of Abram (Gen 14). Even after his nephew took the best of the land, he still loved him. When Lot was dragged off by the enemy and his possessions taken away, Abram organized a force and fought for his nephew and won everything back. That's love in action!
But what is more amazing to me is when the King of Sodom offered him all the possessions he had won back, Abram said, "No thanks". He had made a pact with the Lord that he would take nothing from the king lest by this another man would say they made Abram rich. Why did he do this?
I believe Abram only wanted to be known as a man made rich by the Lord. I find a clue in the passage when Abram calls the Lord, "possessor of heaven and earth". To Abram, God was the possessor of all things. Thus, Abram did not need to go to man to be rich. He knew that if he possessed the Lord (the possessor of all things), he would have all he really needed.
In Jesus' parables of Matthew 13 we have a related thought. Jesus speaks of the person who finds a buried treasure and sells all to possess it. He speaks of a pearl of great price which a man found and sold everything to own it. And what is it that is so worthy? Jesus says it is the Kingdom of heaven, which is really having the King (Jesus) living and reigning in our heart.
And how is it that we can have this King, Possessor of heaven and earth, in our hearts? That was the message of the disciples in Acts 13. They proclaimed the forgiveness of sins through Jesus Christ.
The fact is....before we can possess this great treasure in our hearts, our hearts must be cleansed of sin. Our hearts have to be made a suitable habitation for the King. And the only way our hearts can be made suitable is to have them cleansed by the King - that is the forgiveness of sins. We need the forgiveness of sins which Jesus offers, not just so that we can have heaven in the future, but so that we can have the fullness God desire for us in the present. And when the King has taken residence in our hearts and we begin to know his fullness, we begin to eschew the riches of this world. They begin to mean less and less to us, because, like Abram, we find that God is enough.
May this truth become more of each our reality in 2011!