When we work, we should give our best, as working for the Lord and not for men. There has to be an excellent mindset in all of us: that whatever we do, we should give it our best shot. But what if our best is not yet enough? What if we still fall short of our targets? What if we have exhausted all our efforts in a certain work and yet, people still find it mediocre?
There should not be any second thought on how we will do things. It has to be our best, all the time, because that is expected of us. The Lord says, "Be perfect, as your Father in heaven is perfect".
When we do our best, even if it does not pass man's standards, we will not have regrets. Because that is the maximum that we can go. We cannot go any further. If that is still not acceptable, we cannot do anything.
But when we do work just to have it done, we do not do justice to what is expected of us. We are shortchanging our employer or whoever asked us to do the work. If we fail, we have ourselves to blame because we could have done more, we could have done better. There is that stigma that is left in us that makes us say, "I should have done my best".
True, our best may sometimes be not enough to achieve what we want or what others want from us, but as long as we have stretched ourselves to doing our best, there will be no looking back. That is already our best. The Lord be the judge.
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