Pursuing excellence
Without Bitterness
When you are a person that pursues excellence, but there are others,
many, around you that are haphazardly pursuing very little, you are
going to run into conflict. Most of this conflict will be within you. It
is not going to bother those around you, who are pursuing less than
you are, because
they are happy and content in moment. Their goal is to
have a good time. The Bible calls it, "eat, drink, and be merry."
Nonetheless, this steep contrast of interests and pursuits must be
understood and overcome within our souls, and bitterness not be allowed
to enter into our hearts lest we be deprived of all that we are working
so hard to achieve.
Joyce Meyers told a story in one of her books about a person who wanted
to dig for gold. He knew of a place where the gold was located, but all
previous attempts had proved non-cost effective. In other words, it cost
too much to mine that gold.
But, this one fella wanted to mine that gold. He set out on seeking the
best method to get the gold. Instead of going out with the boys after
work and having a good time, this one chap set himself a goal to
discover the best method. It took time and he was mocked for having
such a pipe dream. Nonetheless, he stayed with it, missing out on all
the fun and games of life.
But when it came time to mine the gold with the method that he
discovered, he was successful and those other chaps came to work for
him.
We might not be mining for gold, but we are called to be those who labor
in the Lord's harvest. We do not all use the same tool in our labors,
but we should be experts with the tools that we do use.
But the point that I want to make is that we cannot allow what our eyes
see when we look around us and consider the lack of diligent labor from
others. It can get very frustrating to see others being lazy while we
labor profusely. We cannot allow this frustration to get under our skin.
Shake it off.
Our father knows and sees what is going on around us. Each of us will
be rewarded for our own personal labor. What are we going to say? "Lord,
I saw what was going on around me and I just could not focus on my own
job." Not! That is not going to work for me, nor is it going to work
for you.
Regretfully, I have allowed myself to steam over these types of
situations. All I did was waste time. I also found out that our enemy,
the devil, would pounce on these opportunities. Sometimes it would take
me even a couple of days before I could get back on track. As matter of
fact, this was happening so much that it became ridiculous. It was in
this "rediculous-ness" that I realized I was wasting time, and I was
chasing foxes. They were stealing my time, my effort, my energy, and in
time they tried to steal my desire.
If you are going through this, or if I go through it again, may the Lord
God Almighty bless us with quick wit and wisdom, and allow us to see
that we need not chase the foxes. Trust the Lord and he will tend to
his workers.
And in time, if we are diligent and faithful, He may even use us to
instruct others to pursue excellence. But first we must have excellence
within our own lives.
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