Just Enough to Get By

2 Chronicles 16:9a “For the eyes of the LORD range throughout the earth to strengthen those whose hearts are fully committed to him…” 

This morning I happened across a book titled: “A Little Bit of God in Every Day”. It is one of those little, small books meant to have an encouraging word for you each day for a month. The book itself is not much larger than a boxed roll of scotch tape so the title is a word play on the size of the book more than anything else. But for how many Christ followers would that title also describe their life? Just a little bit of God in every day and no more. Simply enough to get by and not a measure more! Certainly there is no need to get crazy about loving God.

Jesus did not come to earth, die on the cross and rise from the dead so that we could scarcely skate through life by the skin of our teeth and coast into heaven on fumes. He said in John Chapter 10 and verse 10: “The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full.” A full life is not marked by someone who has only a little bit of God in every day or just enough to get by but instead it is the picture of someone who, no matter what, cannot get enough of God and will not be turned away from his presence.

Does that describe you?

“One thing have I desired of the LORD, that will I seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the LORD, and to enquire in his temple.” That is Psalm 27:4 and I think it describes well the life of someone consumed with knowing God. Someone not merely content with just a little bit.

How much of God are you expecting today?