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Do you think God gave you life so
you could spend your days drowning in mediocrity?
Do I think God meant for me to take
the easy way out until one day I would know no other way? Is
commitment a great word that everyone understands but few want to follow?
H.L.
Mencken refused to be associated with any cause, any organization, any project,
any person who was bogged down by mediocrity.
He believed that anything worth doing was worth doing right.
There
is an answer to all of this you know.
Just go home and make a sign and hang it over your front
door. “All who live within are no worse
than anyone else.”
And any church can do the same, just paint a sign
and hang it from the cross, “Our congregation is no worse than any other.
Michelangelo received, one day, a visit from a friend. He was working on a sculptor and as far as
the friend could see it was finished.
The
next day, since his friend was still in town, he visited Michelangelo
again. He was still working on the
sculptor.
Seeing
no visible change he asked Michelangelo, “You haven’t been working on this same
statue all this time, have you?”
“Indeed,
I have,” answered the sculptor, “I’ve been retouching the facial features,
refining the leg muscles, polishing the torso; I’ve softened the presentation
of some areas and enhanced the eye’s expression.”
“But
all those things are insignificant,” responded his friend, “They are mere
trifles.”
“That
may be,” replied Michelangelo, “ but trifles make perfection, and perfection is
no trifle.”
A
young musician was deeply impressed by the skill of an older musician. After praising the older man for what he had
just heard he said, “It must be great to have all the practicing behind you and
be able to simply sit down and play so magnificently.”
“Oh,” came back the reply, “I still practice eight hours a
day.”
“But why,” exclaimed the young man. “You are already great.”
“Thank you,” said the elderly violinist as he placed his
violin in its case, “but you see I’m not
satisfied with being great. I’m still
working at being superb.”
I think this is what God wants you and
I to do right up to our last day of life, work toward being superb. Never achieving it, but also never giving up
on it as a goal. No not a goal, rather a
mission.
Just remember, the last thing God wants us to do is call a
personal garbage dump a garden, but people do it all the time.
Do it from the very beginning.
Have you ever watched four year olds dig in their heels when they know
what they are doing is wrong but won’t admit it?
Human nature does that because to admit a wrong is to admit
the need of change and people don’t like change.
Do you know
what is the greatest enemy of excellence?
It is the willingness to be satisfied with good. (paraphrase of a Zig Ziglar statement)
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