Good enough is a phrase that's been in my thoughts lately. I recently caught myself thinking that about something I was doing & couldn't believe how it made me feel.
We live in a society that wants to figure out what the minimum standard is & then just barely attain it. We want to figure out how little we can do & still get by. I have said before, but it used to drive me crazy when some teenage boy would ask me, "how far is too far" in regards to his relationship with his girlfriend. I used to respond by telling the boy to ask the girl's father. Whatever he said would probably suffice for me too.
You might think how could someone do that? I would never do anything like that. Oh yeah?
When was the last time you were driving & you thought, I can drive 5 over the speed limit? Yeah. Me too.
We are constantly trying to figure out what we can get away with. That's why we want to know what the dress code is, what the office hours are, or what the minimum expectations are.
When I got out of college & had to start paying income taxes like a real adult, I had to get a tax guy. It made me feel more important to have "a guy". Anyway, I sat down with him & said that I want to pay as little taxes as I could without going to jail. If I could get away with paying nothing, that was cool as long as I didn't have to go to jail.
We try to make the same deal with God. "OK God, what can I get away with?" We want to do as little as possible without any negative consequences.
What if we started asking questions like, "How Holy can I live? How can I have more integrity? or How can I become a better man, husband, or father than I ever dreamed?"
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