Did you ever notice how doing "good" things seems to be THE big focus of some? Now before you think I'm against good things - let me note that I'm a strong proponent of good things. BUT, I do not believe in doing good things just because they are good. WHAT? What does that mean? OK, let me explain. Say a man goes to a poor village in South America and helps the people there dig a well for clean water. That would be a good thing, a worthy, compassionate and honorable thing. But, that very same good thing would actually be bad if indeed the man were a surgeon and people in that village were dying that he could save with his medical skills all the while he's digging a well. By the same token - a man who is a surgeon, but has free time and no sick people to tend to may "best" use his time digging a well!
The good is always the enemy of the best. I believe people can do 3 things to make the good they do always the best:
1. Discover their unique design and giftings and commit to living into and practicing that as a way of life.
2. Determine the "best" (not just good) in any situation, given who they are and what is at hand.
3. Act in accord with #'s 1 & 2.
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