When your best isn't good enough

[Christian_lady]

What is the Christian response (i.e. verses) in dealing with the "universal HORROR" when your best isn't good enough?

What I consider is the CROSS. All negative things can and will be resurrected. In that, I consider that me as a person with flesh will never be good enough. But in Christ, I am.

Thoughts?

[shine]

Hi Christian Lady
I'm not sure i quite understand what you mean? is this the sort of verse you were looking for?


"For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith--and this not from youselves, it is the gift of God--not by works, so that no one can boast. For we are God's workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do " (Eph. 2:8,9).




Peace,

Si

[Buck shot]

I'm also a little confused in what you are asking. If you are speaking of our best in the flesh is as filthy rags to God you are correct. Praise God that we do not have to let the flesh conquer us anymore and we can do works through the new creature we have become that can be a blessing to the Lord

Our fleshly works are still not good but our works we do in the Spirit are just right In this we can be content and have peace

[TrophyofGrace]

When my best isn't good enough, I know Christ's best was. For that I can only praise Him.

I have no strength of my own, but I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me. Philippians 4:13

The best I can do is obey God. Obedience is success, regardless of the outcome.

Jos*1:8 This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success.

[Screwtape]

What is the Christian response (i.e. verses) in dealing with the "universal HORROR" when your best isn't good enough?

What I consider is the CROSS. All negative things can and will be resurrected. In that, I consider that me as a person with flesh will never be good enough. But in Christ, I am.

Thoughts?

If I am understanding you, I have also asked this question a bunch. It helped me to read Philipians where Paul admits:
Philipians 3
12Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already been made perfect, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me. 13Brothers, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, 14I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.

We're never going to achieve total perfection here on earth, but its about acknowlegding the cross and keeping on pressing towards it.

[Scruffy Kid]

Hi, Christian_lady!
Thanks for raising this question!!

When your best isn't good enough
What is the Christian response (i.e. verses) in dealing with the "universal HORROR" when your best isn't good enough?

I almost always feel that my best isn't good enough -- or at least that my efforts, which most people would call conscientious efforts are not good enough, in fact, very inadequate! Occasionally I do feel pleased with my efforts -- but in most cases, I often reckon the best I actually do -- although it might have been possible perhaps for me to do better -- as a kind of less-than-adequate one.

Jesus indeed tells us that when we have done all we can do, we ought to say, in effect, "I am an unprofitable servant, having done only what was my duty!"

I guess I think that looking at things this way keeps us realistic about our fallenness, brokenness, and also helps us to look gently at others who fall short of our expectations of them, or of what's required. I need, far more than I do, to see myself constantly as living by God's grace alone, and grateful, secure, and happy in His grace, even though I know that my best is really pretty scruffy.