Enough is enough!

Matthew 5:⁵"You're blessed when you're content with just who you are—no more, no less. That's the moment you find yourselves proud owners of everything that can't be bought."

 

1 Peter 5: ^6-7So be content with who you are, and don't put on airs. God's strong hand is on you; he'll promote you at the right time. Live carefree before God; he is most careful with you.

 

Matthew 23:^11-12"Do you want to stand out? Then step down. Be a servant. If you puff yourself up, you'll get the wind knocked out of you. But if you're content to simply be yourself, your life will count for plenty."

 

Luke 18:14b" If you walk around with your nose in the air, you're going to end up flat on your face, but if you're content to be simply yourself, you will become more than yourself."

 

Romans 5:11 Now that we have actually received this amazing friendship with God, we are no longer content to simply say it in plodding prose. We sing and shout our praises to God through Jesus, the Messiah!

 

I was thinking about that familiar protest: "Enough is enough!"  It is the kind of thing we either think or blurt out when we have reached the end of our rope with an unresolvable problem or when some kind of frustration seems to repeat itself.  But turned inside out...in a positive sense... it captures an important truth.  When we have learned to be absolutely content with what we have and with who we are... and with what we can do with what we have and who we are...we enjoy a peace that sets us free from some of the scrambling and striving and wasted energy of living.  But the last verse above reminds me that we should never be content with a second class relationship with our Lord.  He has given all for us to set us free from discontent.  We need to apply our energy and our pursuit to please and worship the one who emptied the contents of Heaven to bless us with contentment, knowing that He now fills the contents of our heart.  That is enough for me!

 

blessings,

Rob Smith