“This is enough!” We often say this is enough! When we find ourselves in big trouble, when our efforts seem nothing, when everyone seems against us, we want to say, “This is enough!”
Here Elijah, the prophet of God, who fought against 450 prophets of Baal and slaughtered them in the name of the Lord, now flees away to save his life from Isabel the queen of Israel who vows to kill him and pleas God to take his life. “I am no better than my fathers,” Elijah cries out, admitting that all his wonderful achievement is nothing but a sandy tower that falls down and disappears suddenly.
“This is enough”, we too echo from our valley of tears. Like Paul says, we too are sometimes filled to the point of breaking down with the bitterness, fury, anger, shouting, slander, malice, grief, sorrow and sadness that make us run away from the reality, admitting “I am no better than my father or my mother.” Maybe at some point everything goes well; everyone seems to love me. But suddenly our glorious days that bloom in the morning wither in the evening. Why I feel so empty, lonely, despaired? This is enough, O Lord! Take my life.”