Best We Can Be

Sometimes our plans are altered and it is how we react to those alterations that define us.
The church I attend is a secondary location to our main campus.
On Sundays our service is telecast to the secondary location.
Unfortunately, due to technical difficulties they were unable to get the live feed working for the 1st service.
Our pastor at the secondary location had 60 minutes to prepare a sermon.
How did he react to this alteration?
Well he admitted that when he is stressed his eye twitches and it was currently twitching.
I have admiration for him, he was calm, he was pulled together and even if our sermon today was a hodge podge of verses and ramblings of his views it had gave me something to ponder.

Am I the best I can be?
We touched on Mark 10; when Jesus explained that many who are last will be first and the last first.
Pastor explained that often when we have bed news to deliver we take a moment to remember that we love that person.  That is why we try to protect them and soften the blow.

We also talked of 1 Corinthians 13 and this is when I realized that I am not always the best I can be.

Love is patient, love is kind.  It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.  It does not dishonor others, it is not self seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no records of wrongs.  Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth.  It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

I am not always patient.
I keep record of wrongs, or I have before.
I don't always trusts.

These are things I must work on in order to be the best I can be.
It's easy this time of year to think of being Merry & Cheerful & Bright.
It's easy to follow through when everyone is on their best behavior and you can feel the love.
But what about when the holidays are past and the chaos of "normal" life and the hum drum of day to day sets in.  Do we remember to keep up those loving feelings?
That is my resolution.
I don't make New Years Resolutions and I suppose now I'm not really making one.
I'm planning to start effective immediately.
I'm planning to continue through New Years and hopefully throughout life.
Help hold me accountable.

I can do all this through him who gives me strength- Phillipians 4:13
This post is much like Pastor's message hodge podge of verses and ramblings of my views and for that I apologize.  But I hope that maybe something I said will touch someone, just as Pastors words taught me.
I have a blessed Sunday!