“Be Excellent to each other.” I’m just going to get the quote from Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure, out of the way, just so it stops distracting me. 🙂
Everybody wants Excellence, but who is willing to be Excellent?
This is one of those thoughts, that just came to me. (This is the true starting point of this post.)
Another version of the thought, could read, “Everybody wants the Best, from everyone else, but who is willing to give their Best?”
To be Excellent, or to give your Best, can be a tough thing to do.
Is this because we kind of know, that we are unlikely to receive the Best, or Excellence, from others?
I dare say that most people can see how this can go.
We may want to be Excellent, or give our Best, but life, can just kind of knock it out of us. 😦
If we do give our Best, but then find that others just take advantage of us and our good intensions, then how long will we keep on giving our best?
How long can we keep being Excellent, when others tend to not be so excellent???
The bible has something to say about this.
1 Peter 1:14-16
14 As obedient children, do not conform to the evil desires you had when you lived in ignorance. 15 But just as he who called you is holy, so be holy in all you do; 16 for it is written: “Be holy, because I am holy.”
Leviticus 19:1-2
19 The Lord said to Moses, 2 “Speak to the entire assembly of Israel and say to them: ‘Be holy because I, the Lord your God, am holy.
It appears to be clear, that the Bible has a call, to be holy (or Excellent) first. 🙂
Knowing that Our God is is calling us to do, and be the best that we can be, then can that be of any help to us?
If Our Lord God is calling us to be the Best that we can be, then surely, He will be there with us, in order to help us to be, the Best that we can be. So, what help can we draw upon?
Philippians 4:13
13 I can do all this through him who gives me strength.
2 Corinthians 12:9-10
9 But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me. 10 That is why, for Christ’s sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.
The words of a song, has just come to me, as I’m writing this…
Strength will rise as we wait upon the Lord. We will wait upon the Lord. We will wait upon the Lord.
For those of us, who do want to follow the call of Our Heavenly Father, to be Holy, there is also a source of strength and help, to do what He is asking of us. We just need to tap into, or better still, make and keep, a strong connection with Him.
Philippians 1:6
6 being confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus.
Wannabe Christian Doorman 