When Good is No Longer Good Enough

This is a very interesting Season that we are in right now, because we are in the midst of a Shift. There's a Shift that God is sponsoring in the Spirit Realm that is shifting and changing many things in our lives. For some of you, it may seem like things are changing without your control or approval. Things that used to work before simply are no longer working. Relationships that appeared functional and viable before seem to be outdated and have served their purpose. These incidents and different dynamics are not coincidental or happenstance; they are the result of the Shift that God is creating in the earth.

The reason for this Shift is that God is changing some things and shifting some things, in order to further prepare us for what He's about to release in the earth. When it is released, there won't be time to "get ready", you'll have to be ready. For this reason, some of us are finding out that Good is no longer Good Enough. God is calling us to a higher level. He's pruning and purging even as we speak (John 15). With such being the case, we have to identify and discern the Better that He is calling us to from the Good that we've established.

A good example of this is the Rich Young Ruler (Mark 10). When the young man came running to Jesus, he asked the Lord what must he do to inherit eternal life. Jesus questioned why the young man referred to Him as Good. Then, when Jesus told him what was required in order to inherit eternal life, the rich young ruler said that he had observed them since he was a youth. This is impressive. There aren't too many of us that have kept the commandments from our youth. And Jesus did not correct him. But Jesus challenged him, and that's what He's doing with us today. For a lot of us, we've been faithful, we've been obedient, we've done what the Lord has called us to do. But now He wants to stretch our faith. Jesus told the young man to sell all that he had, take up his cross, and to follow Him. This is where the problem arose. His good was no longer Good Enough. And neither is ours. Jesus is calling all of us to sell out. Jesus is calling all of us to bear our cross. To sacrifice and suffer for the Cause of the Kingdom. The Lord is calling all of us to a closer walk with Him, no matter how close we are or have been.

Saints, let us not be like the rich young ruler. When he heard the call of Jesus, the scripture says that he walked away grieved, because he was not willing to part with his possessions (Mark 10). We too, if we're not careful, can find ourselves walking away from Jesus as well; not willing to part with and relinquish that for which He's calling us to abandon in order to fully follow Him. This is the Season saints where we must allow the Holy Spirit to circumcise our hearts and fix and adjust what the Lord is calling us to surrender to Him. We must establish a witness that submits to the Lord when He establishes that our Good is No Longer Good Enough.