Feeling Good? |
Oct 3, 2011 |
Don’t you feel good when people are attracted to your cause?
From the world’s perspective, when people have an attraction to your cause then you are said to be doing good!
Doesn’t it feel good to be good? But is feeling good (measuring success the way the world views it) the measure we should live by? Good equals success?
Jim Collins writes in his book “Good to Great,” that we shouldn’t settle for good, but that we should strive to be great.
My pastor put it this way last Sunday, “We should always choose BEST over GOOD.” He stated that, “good is the real enemy of best.”
In sports being good is nice, but only those who are great make it to the highest level their sport might provide. I’d like to remind you today that reaching greanesst is nothing you really can do on your own anyway. You simply don’t have the ability within yourself to do it.
Striving for man’s applause, and interest in your cause, is setting the measurement of success far too low. This measuring tool only reaches to the level for that which is good.
However, when we look to please God himself then we can achieve greatness. It isn’t that our organization does everything perfect, but that our attempt to please God in all areas does.
Wayne Cordeiro in his newest book, The Irresistible Church, states, “An irresistible church is not a perfect church. Rather it is one that is constantly aligning itself to pleasing God. It is a people who position their hearts carefully and deliberately with the tenets of the kingdom so that God is pleased to work in unrestricted ways. God is irresistibly drawn to a church where every activity, every plan, and every leadership decision clearly displays His heart.”
So my challenge today is to ask you, “Where is your focus and who are seeking to please?”
When you can answer this correctly, and walk out its path, then God the Father will be pleased and you will become great!
Oct 10, 2011 at 9:29 PM I agree we should always strive for BEST over GOOD. We also need to recognize that we work with the energy of Christ working in us (Col.1:29). I also believe BEST comes in different sizes. God's economy is different than our economy. How can we in good conscience give or strive for anything less than BEST when God gave us the very BEST in Jesus?
Nov 10, 2011 at 11:54 AM This is such an inspirational post that really hits the heart of the matter. I have seen people doing really great work become only "good" when they lost their focus on the cause and began to seek after selfish gain. So sad when that happens. Focus and intention turns out to be everything.
Jan 23, 2012 at 11:38 AM Doing it for God will change the
good to great. Success is working
'with the energy of christ working
in us.' Driven by the heart of Christ not measured by material succees..