Monday, July 7, 2008

What is Enough?

Sometimes when I finish a project I will say "good enough"... not prefect, not even excellent, but "good enough." I feel bad about this later. Every time I walk by that project I will wince at it's incompletion. It seems we often approach our Christian walk this way too. We say a prayer at an altar inviting Jesus into our heart and say, "good enough." We feel regret at not being like some of the other Christians we admire, but, after all, we are "good enough," we said the prayer.

Yesterday, Pastor Randy Caswell at Kankakee First Assembly, preached on Matt. 10:25, "It is enough for a disciple that he be like his teacher..." The phrase, "it is enough," stood out to me. It just jumped off the page at me. It is not just good enough to have said a prayer, I must become like Jesus. How much is enough? Become like Jesus. Pretty high standard I would say. My pastor also talked about the Rich Young Ruler from Luke 18. Jesus told him to go and sell everything and give it to the poor, and "follow me..." This young man, while "good enough" in his moral actions could not become like Jesus. He was bound by his riches. What is it that keeps me from being like Jesus? He has given me the Holy Spirit to enable me to be like Him.

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