Good enough?
"If anyone thinks they are something when they are not, they deceive themselves."(NIV) Galatians 6:3
Someone has written, "There is no more insidious danger than the lure of the good enough." This is particularly true in the realm of the spiritual.
Self-satisfaction is the mother of complacency. Complacency is the mother of sloth. And sloth brings condemnation.
Well did Paul warn Christians, “If anyone thinks they are something when they are not, they deceive themselves." (Galatians 6:3). One who thinks he knows enough will cease to study. One who thinks he gives enough will not increase his giving. One who thinks he does enough will cease from doing.The feeling that we are "good enough" is the grave of growth. Growth is the law of life.
Like Paul of old, we should rather say, “Brothers and sisters, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus. " (Philippians 3:13-14).
Like an old Scots preacher, we should pray: "Lord, keep me alive as long as I live." Let us not be seduced by "the lure of the good enough."