Last night Danny won the "Hell's Kitchen" competition. I was really happy, since I told Lorie around the second week in that he would win. Good job Danny.
This morning he was on "Live with Regis and Kelly" doing a cooking segment and Lorie turned it on for me (she knew about it and I didn't, isn't she the best?!). During their time cooking, Regis asked Danny what he learned from Chef Gordon Ramsey (the host / judge of Hell's Kitchen). Without pausing Danny said "Standards". He then went on to explain how the most important lesson he could learn from Chef Ramsey was to make sure your standards are high, to make sure that every dish that comes out of the kitchen is perfect, not even one grain of salt too much or you redo it and do it right.
It amazes me how people will do this for food, or for someone else's approval, but when it comes to God or Sunday morning service or a Bible Study or whatever, I feel like the average Christian's expectation isn't to do their best, it's to aim just get it done, sometimes even mediocre is good as long as it's done.
Where did that come from?! What's sad is I don't think this is a new development. Back in Exodus God tells Moses that the sin sacrifice must be a one year-old lamb without defect. Now why would God have to be that specific? My guess is because if He wasn't, people would give God the cruddiest, crippled lamb that was one year old, barely fulfilling what they felt was the bare minimum of the Law.
We need to aim higher.
II Timothy 2:15a ~ Concentrate on doing your best for God, work you won’t be ashamed of. (MSG)
I think we need to start doing our best at church, giving our best to God. Now before you all get mad at me, I didn't say it needed to be perfect. We should get as close as we can to perfect, but none of us are there (not even me believe it or not). BUT, from personal experience I've found that people are all too willing to give God the least amount of effort and call it their best just to get out of more work (yet, when someone special is in the pew, they somehow manage to find more effort, it's really strange...)
So let's do it, let's give God what really is our best, in all we do. Let's represent our Holy God right!
Colossians 3:17 ~ And whatever you do or say, do it as a representative of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks through Him to God the Father. (NLT)
T
2 comments:
preach it troy!
amen!
This should spill over in all aspects of our lives. We as Christians are being watched by the world with suspicious eyes. We should then do ALL things as unto the Lord. Then we really are living our lives in a Christ-like manner. Slackers should not be equated with Christians in general.
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