Best

Do your best. To accomplish everything that has been talked about in these inspirational devotional pages, it can all be summed up in this - do your best. This means that in each moment we can only do our best. When we are tired, we can only do our best being tired. When we wake up and are energized and inspired, our best will be different. We will get angry and act in ways that we have not planned. We still can remember that we can do our best and learn from that experience. This is what I call practice.

Repeat these basic essentials over and over to God's people. Warn them before God against pious nitpicking, which chips away at the faith. It just wears everyone out. Concentrate on doing your best for God, work you won't be ashamed of, laying out the truth plain and simple. Stay clear of pious talk that is only talk. Words are not mere words, you know. If they're not backed by a godly life, they accumulate as poison in the soul. 2 Timothy 2:14-16

We can only do our best in each moment to recognize our thoughts, control our emotions, and die to our self. These ideas are not ideas that we can do a few times and then say that we know how to do them. No, these ideas are life long practices that become a part of our life the more we do our best in each moment and practice. It has required me to be more honest with myself and those around me. It required me to realize that the life Jesus has called us to is not a path of easy health and wealth, but one of self sacrifice and humility that leads to one of an unexplainable peace and joy that has nothing to do with circumstances. I am still practicing. Let us not be posion to the soul as Christ followers. People want to find a peace and joy that trancends circumstances. This only happens as we do our best, give ourselves and others the grace to do their best, and allow God to work as only a brillant Creator can.

Namaste'