why do we sometimes struggle and feel we dont have enough

Tonight for dinner we had home made burgers on the bbq , with toasted buns, onions salad and all the trimmings , a family favourite around here, well I tell you it was like the last supper, they all came running to assemble their mountainous burgers, and oh what allot of carry on shoving and pushing to be first as if there was not going to be enough, when in fact there was plenty. I had prepared an abundance of food for them all. After they all worked out that in fact there was no shortage we all sat down and had a lovely meal together. God bless them....

why do we sometimes struggle and feel we don't have enough, when 2 Peter 1:2-8 tells us 2Grace and peace be yours in abundance through the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord.So where is the problem when we know

³His divine power has given us everything , not just a few things , but everything !!we need for life and godliness through our knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and goodness.⁴Through these he has given us his very great and precious promises, so that through them you may participate in the divine nature and escape the corruption in the world caused by evil desires.

⁵For this very reason, make every effort, EVERY effort, not just a little bit when you have some left over time in your day, not just on Sunday morning, but EVERY effort. to add to your faith goodness; and to goodness, knowledge; ⁶and to knowledge, self-control; and to self-control, perseverance; and to perseverance, godliness; ⁷and to godliness, brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness, love. ⁸For if you possess these qualities in increasing measure, they will keep you from being ineffective and unproductive in your knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ..

If we take the time to work on these areas of our lives then we are promised that we will be effective and productive We often don't have enough because we don't put in enough. You do not need to wait for the Universe to be in harmony and all the planets aligned, as some new age's believe. you just need to place your faith firmly in God and do what he asks us to do.

We get so caught up with our plan , rather than his plan and right there lies the problem, we try to do it to ourselves....

The long and the short of it is that we do have enough, more than enough, an abundance in fact. sometimes we are just looking in the wrong place for it.