What is best usually requires us to depend on God. What is best usually requires us to wait on God. What is best usually requires us to sacrifice for God. What is best may seem confusing to others because what is good is easy to spot. It is difficult to see to what is best and to push to get there.
Paul prayed that the church at Philippi would be blessed of God to be able to discern what is best.
Philippians 1:9–10 And this is my prayer: that your love may abound more and more in knowledge and depth of insight, 10 so that you may be able to discern what is best…
God is calling us to what is best.
3 comments:
Pastor Jason you’re so right, God is calling us to what is best. In fact “to be able to discern what is best …” isn’t that the whole art of living, to be able to discern what our highest priorities are, to know what is critical and what can be disregarded? It is easy to complicate this whole issue of good and best, but fortunately in verse 9 Paul gives us a clue as to how we can discern what is best. If we focus our energy on loving God and others (more and more) based on the truth and judgments of the Bible and that becomes the focus of our lives, then we will truly be able to evaluate what is best.
Amen! Yes, love defines our priorities in all things.
This topic reminds me of Peter who though he was doing right when he told Jesus not to go into Jerusalem. He thought he was protecting Christ but Jesus rebuked him.
I heard this week on a radio sermon that we will discern better as we are further and further molded into the image of Christ. That makes a lot of sense to me.
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