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Principle 3: It is a sin to do less than your best. It is wrong to do [merely] well.

Philippians 1:6 – “For I am sure of this very thing, that the one who began a good work in you will perfect it until the day of Christ Jesus.”

Ecclesiastes 9:10 states, “Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might”.

Personal Application

No matter what age you are, keep busy doing what God wants you to do.  Again, remember the call.  Work with all of your might until the day of Christ Jesus to see people come to know and grow in Christ. As Abraham Lincoln said, “Whatever you are be a good one.”  God says, “Whatever you are, be a great one.”

Application to the Church

It is our duty as a body to give your best.  Not just on a Sunday morning but all throughout the week.  No matter what age we are, we give our best to God because he gave his best to us.  Being good or doing good is not enough.  We must be great.  People need to see that.

Such a simple truth that needs reiterated again and again.

Wrap it Up

3 Basic Principles.

1. Do What is Right.
2. The door to success swings on the hinges of opposition.
3. Don’t Coast.  Do things great for the kingdom of God.

In 1577, Sir Francis Drake set out from England with five ships, bound eventually for the Pacific Ocean through the Strait of Magellan on the southern tip of South America. Three years and 36,000 miles later, at the perennial risk of their lives, he and his men had circumnavigated the globe.

This prayer motivated his courage:

Disturb us, Lord, when
We are too well pleased with ourselves,
When our dreams have come true
Because we have dreamed too little,
When we arrived safely
Because we sailed too close to the shore.

Disturb us, Lord, when
With the abundance of things we possess
We have lost our thirst
For the waters of life;
Having fallen in love with life,
We have ceased to dream of eternity
And in our efforts to build a new earth,
We have allowed our vision
Of the new Heaven to dim.

Disturb us, Lord, to dare more boldly,
To venture on wider seas
Where storms will show your mastery;
Where losing sight of land,
We shall find the stars.
We ask you to push back
The horizons of our hopes;
And to push into the future
In strength, courage, hope, and love

Can you pray that same thing?

Think about it.

-jordan