Enough.

Published by Aundre | Filed under student life

Since we got back from camp, I’ve been struggling with myself about what I should name this blog. But I think the name speaks for itself. Gods grace and love is enough for us. Now before i further expound on this point I want to open this blog with a statement.

Many times our perceptions need to be flipped for things to be right side up in our lives.

A while back I went to a Chinese restaurant with Caroline, and got a fortune cookie that said “Dont let the past and useless details choke your existence”.

and who would have guessed that that very truth about knowing that its ok that I stumbled and fell in the past would follow me throughout the year knocking on my heart and waiting for me to bid it welcome.

If youve been alive for more than a minute, I know that you have dealt with guilt and its twin brother shame. Resembling an ocean current that can drown you in a second, these horrible demons follow us around telling us all the things we are not and reminding us of all our failures.

And I have really felt it on my heart to tell you, just like Jay Z said, its time to dirt of your shoulder. Its time for you to just drop those demons by the wayside.

Drop your failures, drop your doubts, drop your guilt about past mistakes and just live the life that is truly life.

Now by no means am I saying that you should be fake and not address things that bother you, or that its ok to sin or hurt others and or yourself. But for those of you who carry it around for weeks, months and years even, its time for you to let it go.  The simple fact is that we are human and a negative side to our propensity for greatness and success is our propensity for evil and failure.

when i was talking about things in our lives needing to be flipped, I meant this: we lug our mistakes along with us on our life journey and allow them to alert us of our imperfections and to let us know that we arent special. We let mistakes take away who we are in Christ and who we are as people.

In the book of Jeremiah, God speaks to Jeremiah in chapter 18 and tells him to head down to the potters house. Once there Jeremiah witnesses the potter working at the wheel. And for some reason while the potter is working the clay he is modeling into a pot becomes marred, which means to become imperfect. But instead of tossing the clay out and starting anew. The chapter says that the potter works with the clay to reform it into something new and pleasing to the potter.

Once this visual ends, God says to us,⁵ Then the word of the LORD came to me: ⁶ “O house of Israel, can I not do with you as this potter does?” declares the LORD. “Like clay in the hand of the potter, so are you in my hand, O house of Israel.

so my question is. why are you holding on to your mistakes, to your guilt and your shame, allowing it to shift your focus and ruin even the best of days when all you need to do is release it unto the LORD and let him remold you. And look I know it isnt easy, so many days I have woken up and sat in bed for a good 15 minutes reminding myself of every stupid thing I have ever done. Ive sat and called myself names and listened to ever negative voice until I didnt even feel like facing the day.

That amigos, is a tragedy. But no more. There is no time better than this for us  to leave that crap behind that was chipping away at our souls, so that you can grow and become a big beautiful pot.

Thanks for reading.