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Good, Better, Best

Tuesday, DECEMBER 10, 2024

Jesus replied, “You must love the Lord your God with all your heart, all your soul, and all your mind.’ This is the first and greatest commandment. A second is equally important: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ The entire law and all the demands of the prophets are based on these two commandments.”

—Matthew 22:37-40 (NLT)

Good. Better. Best. That is the scale upon which our culture loves to weigh ourselves. Even though God had already declared us good in the Garden of Eden (Genesis 1:31), we couldn’t stop there. We had to have more, get more, do more, be more. Until one day, perhaps due to illness or grief or mental anguish or exhaustion or maybe something entirely out of our control, we stop. 

When our striving and trying and hustling stops, what remains? 

Perhaps the truth is that we have forgotten (or maybe never realized) that we were first created in goodness. We never had to earn or push for God’s love. For you are a child of God. Your goodness has always been obvious to God. Jesus recognizes that pain and suffering are not the whole story. He sees our goodness right alongside whatever addictions or diagnoses or family drama we struggle with. So let’s take ourselves off the hook for being good, better, best and settle for good enough, shall we?


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