Whoever loves money never has money enough; whoever loves wealth is never satisfied with his income. This too is meaningless. (Ecclesiastes 5:10)
I have come loathing the word “enough” for a time to now. This is how the Merriam-Webster defines it: “occurring in such quantity, quality, or scope as to fully meet demands, needs, or expectations.” Oy! How much we expect from ourselves! (There are 96 bits of “enough” on the NIV Bible.)
Humans (myself included) spend a vital part of their time trying to do stuff they can’t do. If not (myself included), they will spend another vital part of their time complaining that they couldn’t do enough. If I sang enough, if I cried enough, if I cooked enough…
We will always find the most possible way to push ourselves to the limit, of what we cannot reach. The same with our life. We can’t work enough to do something; we can’t hurry ourselves enough; we can’t pray, read, or fast (or do any other spiritual discipline) enough. Enough, enough, ENOUGH!!!
So I pointed out that we will never do enough to win such fabulous glory. (News flash: we can’t!) Now, as I say on most of my posts, “I will rely on God’s grace.” As one song says, “Your grace is enough, more enough for me…” (Yes, This is Our God, from Hillsong!), and I believe it! We will never be enough to win Heaven. We weren’t meant to! But God is more than good, more than enough for us to sing and know we are His.
Not enough? With God, he is! (Wow! “Enough” has more than I can bargain for!)