There comes a point when you will have to be intentional to improve your knowledge and skills on something you enjoy. Something you enjoy can’t settle for mediocre. It needs to grow into something bigger than just enjoyment that occupies time. I am learning this more as I look at all the things I enjoy doing. For example, I love racquetball, at times I would day dream that I am on the court working on different techniques for my shots. It is a good workout and a fun activity to do with friends. But something has happened in the last three months of playing racquetball; just playing for fun wasn’t enough anymore. I hadn’t won games in a while, my skills or abilities have gone backwards. This has been very frustrating, which has been removing some of the fun out of the game. I remember thinking; I need to quit racquetball and find something else to do. But that thought didn’t last long, I kept playing.
My enjoyment and love for racquetball wouldn’t let me quit. I needed to make a decision. I had three options; quit racquetball, keep playing bad and getting frustrated, or improve my ability and skills. Since the first two options provided no joy or peace, I have only one option to improve my knowledge and skill of the game.
My love for racquetball has forced me to better myself. This love has compelled me into excellence. I can’t settle for mediocre, I need to increase; I need to learn more about the game. Now there is a desire in me that is going to lead to greatness. These same ingredients of love and desire have been seen time again throughout history, of historical people in all areas of professions. What makes a young boy who loves basketball into one of the great basketball players of all time? The answer is in the question; his love for the basketball. The thing about love is that it doesn’t settle. Love is nothing less than excellence and greatness. Love expresses its self in a way that transforms the life of the people it is working in. No one excels or becomes great in something because they have to or because things just happen to work out that way. Excellence is a response from a burning passion inside a person’s heart that refuses to produce anything less than greatness.
God’s love for me has put a burning passion in my heart that compels me to want to love God with my all. I have a desire to live a life of excellence and greatness that God has blessed me with. I refuse to settle and miss out on any of the blessing and things God has made available to me. Mediocre is not a kingdom principle, but excellence and greatness are. Through Christ I can do all things with excellence and greatness.
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