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Inadequate

"I feel so inadequate compared to God!
It makes me uncomfortable."

You feel inadequate compared to God? 
Good, you should feel inadequate.
He is God - and you are not God.
But that should not drive you away from Him.
Let's look at a few Bible characters to see how they dealt with their inadequacy.
INADEQUATE

The Pharisee and the tax collector

Luke 18:
9 To some who were confident of their own righteousness and looked down on everyone else, Jesus told this parable: 
10 “Two men went up to the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector. 
11 The Pharisee stood by himself and prayed: ‘God, I thank you that I am not like other people—robbers, evildoers, adulterers—or even like this tax collector. 
12 I fast twice a week and give a tenth of all I get.’

13 “But the tax collector stood at a distance. He would not even look up to heaven, but beat his breast and said, ‘God, have mercy on me, a sinner.’
14 “I tell you that this man, rather than the other, went home justified before God. For all those who exalt themselves will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be exalted.”

It's like the Pharisee wanted to be like an equal to God, or at least equal to one of God's holy angels.
But we need to remember that we humans are the lowest class of beings that can go to heaven.
* God, of course, is the tops in holiness and power.
* The holy angels that didn't sin during the Great Rebellion, are next in grandeur.
* Finally are the humans that allow themselves to be redeemed by God's mercy.

Psalm 8: 4b says:
" ... what is mankind that you are mindful of them,
human beings that you care for them?
5 You have made them a little lower than the angels
and crowned them with glory and honor.
6 You made them rulers over the works of your hands;
you put everything under their feet: ... "

This is how we Christians should see ourselves;
even in Christ, we are lower than the angels - because we had to be redeemed
before we could enter heaven.
INADEQUATE

Humans and Angels

Revelation 22 gives us a glimpse into the Heavenly relationship between angels and humans:

Then the angel showed me the river of the water of life, as clear as crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb 2 down the middle of the great street of the city. On each side of the river stood the tree of life, bearing twelve crops of fruit, yielding its fruit every month. And the leaves of the tree are for the healing of the nations. 3 No longer will there be any curse. The throne of God and of the Lamb will be in the city, and his servants will serve him. 4 They will see his face, and his name will be on their foreheads. 5 There will be no more night. They will not need the light of a lamp or the light of the sun, for the Lord God will give them light. And they will reign for ever and ever.

6 The angel said to me, “These words are trustworthy and true. The Lord, the God who inspires the prophets, sent his angel to show his servants the things that must soon take place.”7 “Look, I am coming soon! Blessed is the one who keeps the words of the prophecy written in this scroll.”

8 I, John, am the one who heard and saw these things. And when I had heard and seen them, I fell down to worship at the feet of the angel who had been showing them to me. 
9 But he said to me, “Don’t do that! I am a fellow servant with you and with your fellow prophets and with all who keep the words of this scroll. Worship God!”

Notice that the angel didn't comment about any of John's past sins or current struggles
which as a human - he must have had. The angel spoke from the perspective of a 'fellow servant'.
So, even though we were made 'a little lower than the angels'  ...
there seems to be a point where we are seen simply as servants and worshipers of God - 
though we should never forget that we needed redemption - something God's holy angels
never needed.
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