Frazzled Female Friday
Melanie - June 25, 2010
Charles Stanley's teaching of "the good being the enemy of the best" has resonated with me for years. I've seen it in my own good lifestyle, and in the frenzied good living of my friends. This morning, meditating on God's Word the deeper reality rises up from my heart.
Good is the murderer of the best!
I know that sounds a bit melodramatic, but at the moment my heart aches for those who pour into the Frazzled Female events. Good women; GOOD and BUSY women who are doing so much good, they're missing out on the BEST!
I have a friend who is GOOD. He's good through and through. His goodness produces tolerance in his thinking and in his behavior. He doesn't see it that way. His belief system forges the notion that many roads lead to Heaven and that every GOOD person will ultimately find a way to God. My heart aches.
All around me, I'm seeing GOOD, suffocating BEST!
It doesn't have to be that way. When it happens, it's because we are allowing it! We fill our days with many things: works, activities, necessary details (and unnecessary ones), meetings, appointments, computer work, FaceBook, Twitter, television . . . and the plethora of good things pile up, until . . . the desire to seek the best is slain and forgotten.
And, my heart aches.
Okay. Let's not leave it here. I'm remembering the prophet Elijah who spent a lifetime chock full of good things done for the Lord (1 Kings 19.) He eventually crumbled under the pressure and begged to die... and then, the BEST delivered him. The death of the good birthed the life of the best!
I'm not claiming to know all the answers, but I do know Him. Jesus! The Highest, the Truest, the Giver and Sustainer of a life that is far better than good...a life that's THE BEST!
Let's talk. What's He saying to your heart about the good in your life choking the best?
"All of us have become like someone who is "unclean."
All of the good things we do are like polluted rags to you . . ."
Isaiah 64:6 (New International Reader's Version)
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Comments (2)
Melanie — excellent post. I find myself falling into that frazzled state and ‘settling’ for the Good and forgoing the Best.
Thanks for the reminder.
Posted on June 25, 2010 10:48 AM
I remember hearing Beth Moore say several years ago, “Do one thing with Excellence, instead of a myriad of good things, some that you are not even called to do.”
Doing what we are called to do with Excellence would equate to God’s Best.
Posted on June 26, 2010 7:13 AM