Be Your Best For Christ!

What is the main obvious goal that should be the focal point of any competitive sports team? To be the absolute best that they can be, to achieve the highest honor in their respective sport. Around the time of this posting the final two teams remaining in major league baseball are preparing to battle to be the winner of the World Series. The entire season that they have played has all come down to this moment, and it is up to them to be the absolute best that they can be and take home that title.

That is the attitude that we as Christians need to have when it comes to our faith. We need to strive to be the best that we can for God. We need to strive for perfection.

Many times people will only do enough to just “get by.” I knew many kids like this in school, who would just get enough of a grade to pass the class, doing the least amount of studying and work, while certain of their peers would strive to be consistently at the top of their class, putting in the hours of study and focus needed to be the best.

Too many people only do the least amount that they have to, without pushing themselves to their full potential. They do just enough to pass, and then quit. But the Apostle Paul did not have this kind of attitude. He never thought himself to be perfect, but strove towards the bar that Christ had set.

Philippians 3:12-14  “Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect: but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus.

Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before,

I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.”

Do you see how Paul lived his life? Paul forgot all of those things that he had accomplished and attained, and instead continued to push himself to do even more. To continue to become even better, and to serve God to the best of his ability. When Paul went somewhere and started a church, he didn’t stop there. He went somewhere else, found some new believers for Christ, and did it all over again. He had a gift and he used it to the full extent.

You know, it is usually just after someone falls just short of doing something completely flawless that they look back and ask themselves, “Why couldn’t I have just pushed myself a little more?” Or “Why didn’t I just try a little harder?” 

We have one shot at life on the Earth. One shot to show the Lord how much you love Him. Don’t settle for “good enough.” Don’t do “just enough to get by,” but instead be the best that you can be! Be your best for Christ!

In Christ,

Andrew