Giving Our Best
Best: of the most excellent, effective, or desirable; type of quality (adj) to the highest degree: most (adverb) that which is most excellent, outstanding or desirable (verb) outwit or get the better of someone.
I was watching a program and one of the speakers said I always bring my best. I know I have to bring my best. At that moment I heard God speak to my heart, do you bring me your best? The question lingered in my spirit so heavy in my heart. This morning the Holy Spirit asked me, “Why did you not write about best?” I said, “I don’t know, but truthfully as I reflected on my life there were so many times I did not bring my best and it laid heavy on my spirit.”
To bring our best does not mean we are to be perfect. It means that we are to do our best with what we have at that moment. God begin to show me all through his word what our best looks like. It was quite different from what I thought. Mary was doing her best preparing her life to be Joseph’s wife when the Angel of the Lord appeared to her. Esther was doing her best as a young lady when the King’s official came to take her to the palace. Moses was doing his best taking care of the sheep when he saw the burning bush on the mountain. God is always looking at our heart because the heart tells us how we are serving. Scripture says to guard your heart because out of it flows the issues of life. Proverbs 4:23
We cannot bring our best if our heart is not right. I looked up the word heart in the Strongs Concordance and it said that the heart includes not only the motives, feelings, affections and desires, but also the will, aims, principles, thoughts and intellect of man. The heart embraces the whole inner man. People can give us all kinds of accolades for the work that we do, but it will never be our best if our heart is not in the right place.
The heart is the source of all action and the center of all thoughts and feelings. The heart stands for the inner being of man, the man himself and is the foundation of all he does. God showed me that Mary, Joseph and Esther brought their best in their daily activities because their heart was right. We can always bring our best even when we make mistakes if our heart is in the right place!
Affirmations: Matthew 10:20; Luke 24:32; Ephesians 6:19, Isaiah 55:11
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