Just Don't Have Enough

   Last night after church, while my brother and I was loading our road gear up in the van, we became distracted (as we very easily do sometimes), and began to start talking with the pastors. Half of our music was in the back of the van, and half was still just setting on the ground waiting to be placed in its correct spot, while the trunk of the van was still open. Oftentimes before, if leaving a door or the trunk open on the van for any period of time at all, the battery will die, and the van will not start. My brother and I both know this fact about our van battery very well, but as we become engrossed in our conversation, we soon forgot about the open trunk, and we definitely forgot about the battery easily dying. We carried on our conversing, and in our sidetracked state of mind, we let the battery die. Well, as we realized that our job wasn’t yet finished, we came back and began to load the rest of our music. BAM!! We close the trunk, turning around to walk back inside to say our final goodbyes. After hugging necks, and saying our farewell words, we all jumped back in the van, thinking we was ready to depart in peace, only to turn the key to find a dead battery. Dad said, “turn the lights on” and the lights came on. I opened the door, and the dome lights inside the van came on. We tried starting it again, but we just didn’t have enough life left to make it. As I stood back, thinking to myself, “the lights work, the horn still works, it looks as if it could work beautiful until you try to leave. It just don’t have enough to make it crank.”



   While thinking about the battery troubles with our van, I felt something drop into my spirit also. “This is how most of the American Church is today.” I thought, as I then quickly pulled out my phone and wrote down what was on my heart. And now I will share those thoughts with you.


   Beloved, most of us today, are spiritually as this physical situation I have just described. How sad! Most just have enough charge to make a lot of noise, but never enough life to make it Home. Most today have just enough charge to appear as if everything is in tiptop condition, but truthfully having no life at all. Most Christians will say there earthly farewells, expecting to make it Home, after living a life engrossed in earthly plans outside the will of God, and never checking their battery life with Christ. I don’t mean to sound as if I am a gloomy type person, but I just have to deliver what I feel. Many today, will close the trunk, packed for a place they will not go, simply because the Life of Christ has became dead within them. They somewhere along the lines forgot to maintain the battery, and became sidetracked in their work, forgetting that it is a continual thing with this great Christ. We cant just be so careless with Him! He is our Life, He is our way Home, and we must keep ourselves deepening in Him, and our connection fully charged.


   Dear soul, how strong is your battery life with Christ? Do you have enough to make it Home when He calls? Or will He be forced to say, “depart from me, ye worker of iniquity. For I never knew you.” Just because you cast out demons in His name, just because you heal the sick in His name, just because you proclaim His name to the lost, doesn’t not mean you know Him. You must be truly born again. Do you remember a time when your life became new? Do you remember being born again? Or have you at one time had the jumper cables of the Holy Ghost locked into your soul, but somehow, someway have become careless, and let the charge go down? Beloved, do you have enough? Do you have enough of Him to make it Home? Or will He call your name, and find you spiritually dead, and with a broken heart be made to say, “you have become careless. You have let the charge go down. You just don’t have enough …to make it Home”?