Enough Is Enough

“ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!”
Al Pittman

The Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris, speaking at a New Hampshire presidential campaign event, a month ago declared, “enough is enough!” She
was referring to the horrific mass shooting at Apalachee High School, in Barrow County Georgia. After making this statement, the Democrat presidential candidate quickly pivoted to the politics of gun control. As I listened to Vice President Harris’ speech I
thought, clearly by virtue of today’s national spiritual bankruptcy due to our rejection of God, enough is clearly, “not enough!” Gun control will not solve the problem of gun violence, because gun violence is a matter of the heart, a matter
which only God can resolve! One of the Vice President’ platform slogans is, “We are
not going back!” It resonates with her supporters, especially proponents of abortion. In fact, the Vice President voted against a bill that would ban abortions
after 20 weeks of pregnancy. (source: time.com).The slogan, among other things, infers resistance to a return to America’s racist past; a past ironically which
was promoted by the Democrat Party of the south. A party that gave birth to the KKK, Jim Crow, and the politics of the so-called “Dixiecrats,” southern politicians. In fact, it was the Dixiecrats who led a filibuster against the Civil Rights Bill passed on February 10, 1964. The filibuster lasted seventy-days. The Bill finally passed the United State’s Senate on
June 19, 1964. This is not a political statement, but a historic fact! From a spiritual perspective, when I hear people proclaiming, “We will not go back,” I can’t help but
think, “We must go back, not to a racist past, but “back to God!” There are things we can learn from the past, which should never be repeated. Similarly, there
are also things we must never forget, i.e. trust and dependence upon God as a nation. Scripture warns. Jeremiah 6:16 - “Thus says the Lord: "Stand in the
ways and see, And ask for the old paths, where the good way is, And walk in it; Then you will find rest for your souls. But they said, 'We will not walk in it.' (NKJV) It was President Abraham Lincoln who said. "We have been the recipients of the choicest bounties of
Heaven; we have been preserved these many years in peace and prosperity; we have grown in numbers, wealth, and power as no other nation has ever grown. But we have forgotten God. We have forgotten the gracious hand which preserved us in peace and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us, and we have vainly imagined, in
the deceitfulness of our hearts, that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own". We have come to the place in which we foolishly
believe as a nation, we can heal ourselves! Yet, the truth is, it has been only God who has sustained us! Gun control, speech control, climate control, political control, price control, etc., are poor substitutes for a nation out of control, apart from God! “Enough will never be enough,” until Christ is “enough!” For only He can satisfy the soul! (Psalm 107:9) For He satisfies the longing soul, And fills the hungry soul with goodness. (NKJV)In fact, being under “God’s control. ” Is the answer to “gun control.” No amount of legislation can
accomplish this, because “control” begins in the heart! America has a heart problem, which only God can heal! As the Lord God, reminded the Hebrews (Israelites) of the Old Testament, so He reminds us today, “…For I am the Lord who heals you. ” (Exodus
15:26b – NKJV) For the individual and as a nation, enough will never be enough until, Jesus is “enough!” Until you and I are in a right relationship with God, through faith in Christ! People are weary today, desperate for true hope, and not more empty promises, every four years! I’ll be the first to say, as a follower of Christ, we should exercise our right to vote. Americans have died for us to exercise that right. But let us cast our vote, with our confidence residing in God and not man. Vote in a manner which reflects our need to return to God, rather than rejecting God! By returning to the “One” who has sustained us in the past, and will keep us in the future, we are saying “enough is enough!” Jesus
said.“Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For My yoke is easy and My burden is light. ” (Matthew 11:28-30 – NKJV)
The truth is, “We need to go back,” to move forward as a nation, because we cannot save ourselves! Back to the understanding, as a people and individually, that
God is our national sustainer of hope! Zechariah 1:3 - Therefore say to them, 'Thus says
the Lord of hosts: "Return to Me," says the Lord of hosts, "and I will return to you," says the Lord of hosts. (NKJV) In his inaugural address on January 20, 1961, John F. Kennedy said, “Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country.” The
reverse is happening today, everyone seems to be more concerned with what the government can do for them, rather than what they can do to be a “blessing”
to our nation! As followers of Christ the best thing we can do for our
nation, is to “to glorify God!” Let us declare in our homes and our churches, “enough is enough,” by enthroning Christ as Lord and King! Let us pray for our
nation. Pray for a return to the God of our past, future, and future! He is enough, we have had enough!