15 If it is burned up, he will suffer loss; he himself will be saved, but only as one escaping through the flames.
So many people today do just enough to get by. They come from the school of Just Enough, just enough homework to pass, just enough at the job so as not to get fired, just enough so I don’t get labeled as the overachiever trying to show off to management. I think we all at times have been hit by Just Enough. One way to think about this section of Scripture is that it talks about how eternity will be experienced by believers. Those who have lived by Just Enough get to experience heaven, but only in its skeletal form. Their lives were spent on the edge of the pool, feet dangling in the water, never really fully partaking of the full experience of Jesus. That is their eternity. Everything done with the Just Enough, I’ll hold back a little, I won’t risk it mentality, gets removed from them. Only those surrender moments are left, those times of abandoned obedience, those steps of trust. I don’t know about you, but I want to experience the fullness of heaven. I don’t want to be confined to riding only the kiddie rides a Six Flags, I want the full package. I don’t want to be constrained to choosing from the appetizers, I want the full range of options. I don’t want to have to view life on an 8″ camp TV, I want a Super Super HD 40 foot screen with 10,000 speakers and a single remote that actually works every gadget I own. Do you get the picture? If you want that in eternity, then ask for it now. Give up the Just Enough thinking and acting and jump in with both feet into the middle of God’s will.
The Arnold Journey 