This, like all of your posts is powerful. But it is sooo true, the world is always the first to tell you this measures up, that doesn’t, you can do this, you can’t do that, your car is slow, you are a C student. People get stuck in ruts of trying to measure up to the Jones’. We are conditioned to strive for the world’s excellence and will burn up all of our energy to learn and do the things that we need to do. This leaves me with a question.

Since we are measuring up to God’s word we should be shooting for excellence in everything we do, right? The only difference is the way that we go about doing it, whether the excellence is because we put our life in divine hands, or because we left our families and drove ourselves crazy trying to keep up.

In this case, the signs following a Christian should be excellence that the world cannot explain, right? Having it all because we are not doing it for ourselves, or the world, but for God.