Pursuing Excellence

            This week started off with a trip to our local martial arts studio for self-defense class! This was a very entertaining mystery Monday. We each partnered up and practiced several self-defense moves.

            Austin Oches did a phenomenal job as our speaker this week as he spoke on living a high impact life. He used the diagram below to explain this process of how we honor God. My favorite part about this diagram however, is pursuing excellence. Christians often forget to do this, but we are called to do so. This has kind been a hot topic at Link Year as we are wrapping up the year the staff here keeps encouraging all the students to finish strong. 1 Corinthians 3:23-24 says, “whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men, knowing that from the Lord you will receive the inheritance as your reward. You are serving the Lord Christ.” Christians are working for the God of the Universe!! What an exciting thing that we get to do! Our real reason for performing with excellence is to Honor God. There are three components of excellence:

1.)   expertise- knowledge and ability to see what should be done

2.)   innovation- drive and passion to believe it can be done a new or better way

3.)   discipline- commitment to persevere until it is done

Persevere and don’t give up on pursing excellence to honor our Creator. Check out some of these other verses to see what the Bible says about why excellence is important: Psalm 8:1, 2 Samuel 22:31, Romans 12:1-2, Psalm 36:7, and Isaiah 12:2-5. So if you could choose one are in your life to excel in (that your currently aren’t already) what would be?