I don’t know about you, but I’m tired of wanting more! I’m tired of not feeling satisfied. I’m tired of wishing for more—more time, more money, more things. I’m sick and tired of being sick and tired! Enough is enough!!
Actually…is it enough? Is what I’ve been blessed with really enough for me? Is the grace of God enough for my eternal salvation? Of course! Then isn’t grace enough for my daily Christian walk? It ought to be. I know it ought to be. But it doesn’t feel like it. I don’t have the peace and contentment I know I should have. Why?
For me, it comes down to two simple reasons:
1. I don’t want to not want any more. I think I want to be contented and pull back from the table of life every night, sighing, “I’m full!” But I don’t want this, not really. Not enough to admit that I can’t do enough to earn this feeling. It would mean waiting on the Lord to satisfy me, instead of trying to “help myself.”
2. I forget what I already have. I have a bad memory. Worse than the average person’s. But it’s easy for all of us to forget how many “extras” we’ve been privileged to receive.
The prime example? The Israelites. Bountifully blessed in the book of Joshua, God had fulfilled the promise. The Promised Land of Canaan was theirs. They ate out of vineyards that they hadn’t planted. They had peace. But they enjoyed their blessings so much they forgot where they came from. They forgot some of the miracles God did to deliver. Then judgment would come, they would finally remember, and they would cry out to God to save them. He would graciously send a deliverer. Then they would forget all over again.
I used to despise the Israelites in the book of Judges for being so disrespectful and ungrateful to the Lord! But if I’m honest with myself, I do this, too. My heart is pricked that in one breath, I can thank the Lord, but then in the next breath, I’m asking for something else already. When will enough be enough? When will I feel like I’ve got enough money in the bank? When will I feel like I’ve got enough things to be “happy”? There’s always something more.
But enough IS enough!! For me, and for you!
Why? Because God is all I need! He is all you need!
“But He said to me, ‘My grace is sufficient for you, for My power is perfected in weakness.’ Therefore I will boast all the more gladly in my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest on me” (2 Cor. 12:9, Berean Study Bible).
“Not that we are sufficient in ourselves to claim anything as coming from us, but our sufficiency is from God” (2 Cor. 3:5, ESV).
“Surely God is my help; the Lord is the one who sustains me” (Psalm 54:4, NIV).