When Is Enough…. Enough?

I’ve been thinking about writing this blog since I finished the last blog but really wasn’t sure how I wanted to tie it altogether. Funny/Ironic events that lead to this all happening right now like it is.

I got to go home recently for an entire week for Thanksgiving break (lucky me I know) and I got to do a lot while doing so little. I think I have finally put all the pieces together and that’s why its take me a couple weeks to bounce back from the last blog.

I consider my life pretty dang good, those that know me well know that I have everything I could ever want and need. I’m provided for, I have a loving family, I don’t struggle to do the things I consider “daily things”, so in a lot of ways I am very blessed. I also consider the life I live in many ways pleasing to God; by that I mean that I am living for Him, doing things for His glory, seeking Him first. Don’t think I am tooting my own horn here because that is far from the truth so hang with me. I STILL struggle with daily, easy, little things that aren’t pleasing to Him and it had been hitting me in a big way, yet not as much as some and I am writing this blog in hopes that people will read it and feel in some way shape or form the conviction I feel and am now confessing. That enough is enough!

I look around in the world we live in today and there is a re-occurring mentality, almost a sickness, and I’m guilty of it in ways to so I’m not pointing fingers that aren’t coming back at me. Its this issue of continued, repeated, habitual sinning. I don’t care what it is, you name it: lying, cheating, sex, cursing, lust, hate, drugs, alcohol, envy, gossip, greed, false idols, the list goes on and on and on. This is my question: When Is Enough, Enough?! We have all the tools and abilities to cut these things from our lives and be done with them yet they continue to happen no matter how much we say we want to stop doing this or that, its not happening. Our words are just that, words, there is no ceasing of doing these things. Why?! What is the point in saying that you want to stop or promising yourself or worse, promising God that you will stop tomorrow or later. Stop saying later, or tomorrow, put your words into action, I urge you, no I challenge you, I challenge myself, to actually DO IT!

I saw a billboard as I was driving back to Abilene today, it was one of those God billboards with a quote from God. (Whoever came up with this idea by the way, genius) It read, “They aren’t suggestions, they’re called commandments for a reason.”-God

That hit me pretty hard because I KNOW all the things in my life that I don’t need and that are holding me down or hindering my relationship with Christ, yet no matter how much I tell myself to be done with them, they keep popping back up. I know I’m not alone in this so I write to encourage the weary of spirit in whatever it is but I also write to call you out on the issues in your life. None of us are without struggles of sin. So what is your sin that is holding you back and when are you going to decided that enough is enough and that it is time to make a change! Stop saying and start doing! There’s nothing worse than saying you’ll do something and not following up with it, trust me. I know this was all over the place and I couldn’t convey my anger/disgust/encouragement/care the way I truly wanted to. But don’t let it be just something you deal with alone, talk to someone about the sin that is holding you down. Read Ecclesiastes 4:9-10 and then find someone, share with them what your sins are that continue to pop up and let them help you walk through being done with them. If you don’t feel comfortable asking someone, ask me, and I’ll share mine with you as well. No sin is greater than another, but there is power in knowing and living with each other through those things. Stop letting the devil have his day, enough is enough.