Just what does it mean to be good enough? To be a good enough...
Daughter, Mother, Brother, Friend, Employee, Employer, helper, neighbor, father, sister, cousin, wife, husband, grandparent....you fill in the blank.
In fact, what does "good enough" really mean? Does it mean being successful? Does it mean simply being good? Does it simply mean that it will keep most people happy, yet a few dissatisfied. Or should you simply try to be good enough in every single solitary genre of your life (aka, those listed above.) Is "good enough" below good? Basically, are you just short of the par of "good" if you are "good enough"?
Life's toughest question; Can you make everyone happy? Or better yet, can you even make anyone happy? Or "happy enough" that they don't always ask you to work harder because your not good enough?
Of course not.
My question: Is "good enough" equivalent to success?
Proverbs 16:3 says "Commit your actions to the Lord, and you shall succeed."
So if we're right with God, will we succeed? And does success here mean success in life, love, wealth...what? In my personal opinion, I believe whoever wrote this particular Proverb meant that we will have success in everything if we commit our actions to God.
It's an interesting thought...it makes me want to stop looking at the individual fires in my life and look at the big one that needs to be kindled because of the Life it brings...the fire of love for God, and the one that keeps the other fires burning.
Daughter, Mother, Brother, Friend, Employee, Employer, helper, neighbor, father, sister, cousin, wife, husband, grandparent....you fill in the blank.
In fact, what does "good enough" really mean? Does it mean being successful? Does it mean simply being good? Does it simply mean that it will keep most people happy, yet a few dissatisfied. Or should you simply try to be good enough in every single solitary genre of your life (aka, those listed above.) Is "good enough" below good? Basically, are you just short of the par of "good" if you are "good enough"?
Life's toughest question; Can you make everyone happy? Or better yet, can you even make anyone happy? Or "happy enough" that they don't always ask you to work harder because your not good enough?
Of course not.
My question: Is "good enough" equivalent to success?
Proverbs 16:3 says "Commit your actions to the Lord, and you shall succeed."
So if we're right with God, will we succeed? And does success here mean success in life, love, wealth...what? In my personal opinion, I believe whoever wrote this particular Proverb meant that we will have success in everything if we commit our actions to God.
It's an interesting thought...it makes me want to stop looking at the individual fires in my life and look at the big one that needs to be kindled because of the Life it brings...the fire of love for God, and the one that keeps the other fires burning.
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