Enough?

Today’s Reading: Matthew 21:28-35

Jesus said to them, “I tell you the truth, the tax collectors and the prostitutes are entering the Kingdom of God ahead of you.” ---Wow, what a statement!

Now some people may read this and try to explain it away by saying things like Jesus was not being literal, he was just trying to make a point and so on and so forth. You want to know what I think, oh he was making a point all right---he was and is still telling us that words are not enough. Sitting on a pew at church for every service is not enough. Being able to quote scripture at the drop of a hat is not enough. Being on every committee, board, or team is not enough. We, in and of ourselves, are not enough. So what is enough? What makes us be enough? One word----Jesus! He is enough!

It is not about what we know, who we know, or what all we do. It is who we are and we have to be completely and totally committed to living for Jesus if we want to be enough.
We have to forget what we think we should be or do and focus on what Jesus is telling us. We have to let go, have faith enough to step out and allow God to guide us completely. With each day that passes, with each word that I write I understand more and more why we have to, not need to, but have to die to ourselves daily in order for us to be enough. For it is that self that causes us not to be who were created to be as a child of God.

Think about it…in the scripture that we just read it mattered not what either son said---it was what they did that made the difference. The first son seemed almost rude by responding to his father’s request by saying ‘I will not’. The other son said ‘I will, sir’---he not only told him he would do what his father asked, but he addressed him with ‘sir’---sounds responsible and respectable, yet this son did not actually obey his father. We can talk all we want to, but we have to live it---we have to obey our Father God and believe---I mean really obey and really believe in a way that we never have before.