Yesterday I spent the day at Trinity Cheltenham's Women's Day - Splendour. It was a great day. Great Worship, great fellowship, great teaching. I really value these days - a chance to feast on the Lord - I think there is a place for feasting, alongside every day daily bread.
Anyway one of the speakers, Ben Cooley from Hope for Justice, was talking about his work, his passion for seeing justice reign, and his vision to see an end to modern day slavery. It was a hard hitting talk on many layers. But the bit that has stayed with me is about 'enough'.
He was talking about how hard it is to do what he does (not in a complaining way), and how sometimes he feels as though he has had enough. He referenced Elijah (1 King's 19), who, after being threatened by Jezebel, runs away, and says to the Lord, I have had enough, take my life.
Now there are times when my job is overwhelming, when I'm not sure if I have enough emotion left.
I have friends, who have been beaten and battered, are being beaten and battered, by thing, after thing , after thing, and there have had so much more than enough.
The sufferings in many places in the world are too much.
The suffering of the children and adults who are modern day slaves is too much.
I have prayed 'enough' for my friends, and I try to do it for the big situations.....
But Ben's point was that we have a choice - 'enough' can be a cry of defeat, or a cry of defiance. We can chose to say - Enough - I stand against the horrors of the world - on behalf of the kids I care for, on behalf of my friends who are suffering, on behalf of all God's people who are suffering.
Because the battle belongs to the Lord. And He has won. The skirmish that the devil is trying to use to snatch us away will NOT win. And enough is enough. And I am crying out on behalf of my friends - its time it stopped.
