Pursue Excellence (Daily Devotional)

Hello everyone, we are talking about ingredients for success and today I want to share with us this ingredient that is talked about everywhere and that is excellence. In whatever God has given us to do, we need to be excellent. Now the best example for us is in the life of Daniel. Daniel was a man who gave himself to many activities, we see that he had incredible wisdom, he was interpreting dreams, he was working for the king, he was into various studies as well, studying plants and different things. So, he was a man who was engaging with everything that he had to perform all his duties with excellence. In fact, Daniel chapter five and verse 12, we see the king remarking and saying that here is a man who has a spirit of excellence. Now the other thing for us to realize is, that this spirit of excellence that Daniel carried was really the empowering Holy Spirit who is available to us today. So, if Daniel in his generation could walk with excellence, we can work with excellence in whatever we are called to do. Colossians chapter three and verse 23 it says, ‘and whatever you do, do it heartily, as to the Lord and not to men.’ So, we're called to do things with our everything, we are called to do things to honor God, to bring glory to God and please God and that calls for us to do our highest and our best. So simply put, excellence means doing our highest and doing our best. Now just a note for us here, when we talk about excellence, many of us get overwhelmed because we compare ourselves with others who are doing better than us and we look down on ourselves, but excellence is not about comparing with others, it's about doing our best. So, just want to encourage us to keep our eyes fixed on progress and not on perfection. When we do our best, God sees our heart, He sees our ability and He sees the effort that we're putting in and He blesses our works. So, let's do our best and not be overwhelmed in anyway. Let's pray together, Heavenly Father, we pray God for your help in our lives and we ask that you will give us the grace to be excellent in everything and God that whatever we do will glorify your name, in Jesus’s name we pray, Amen.

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