DO YOUR BEST

These three words are often used to spur on or encourage a child, grandchild, spouse, teammate, or work associate. It's about all we can ask, isn't it? Just do your best! However, in God's economy, doing our best falls way short of what is possible through the power of the Holy Spirit. While doing some studying in the area of spiritual gifts, I came across a great thought from a book I've been reading: What's So Spiritual About Your Gifts? The book is authored by Henry and Mel Blackaby.
The following is an excerpt that grabbed my attention:

"...too often we're content to serve God by giving our own greatest effort. What is that, however, compared to the power of the Holy Spirit? What does the world really need? To see what we can do or what God can do? How strange it must sound to God when we counsel others (or ourselves), "Just do your best, that's all that matters." Do we want to give the world our best, or let the world experience God's best? To give them only the best we have is to cheat the world of what could have been."

Could it be that by doing my best, I would actually be cheating the world of what could have been?

Great perspective...possibly a paradigm shift?

DOM