“It is enough”
1 Ki. 19:4
Elijah had just killed 450 prophets of Baal at Kishon. The LORD was with him and he was a great man. But when Jezebel heard of this, she was seething with anger and said, “So may the gods do to me, and more also, if I do not make your life like the life of one of them by this time tomorrow” (1 Ki. 19:2). Afraid, Elijah ran away to Beer-sheba and left his servant there. He went another day’s journey into the wilderness and hid there. As he grew tired, he sat down under a broom tree and asked the LORD to take his life, “It is enough; now, O LORD, take away my life” (1 Ki. 19:4).
Likewise, we may have been facing troubles and hardships in our service to the LORD and want to cry, “it is enough.” Elijah, though he was a great prophet, also fled and cried to the LORD, “it is enough.”
But it is the LORD’s to decide when it is enough. Too many times have we followed Him when we want to and only till how far we want to.
Who are we anyway to cry to Him, “it is enough”?
