Date: Saturday, 6th July, 2024
Text: Proverbs 22:29
Author: Pastor Adedeji Fadehan
Exhortation:
The spirit of average limits a man from reaching his full potential. To be average is to be neither here nor there. It makes one to settle for less when you can actually achieve more. Why should you be satisfied with the good or the better when you can actually be the best?
How would you feel if you are involved in a competition and someone else, a co-competitor is being celebrated and rewarded for excellence instead of you for something you know, inside you that you could have achieved if you had pushed yourself harder? Of course it could lead to emotional pains and regrets.
When a typical average person is given a task to do, he does only what is enough and stops at that. But someone with an excellent spirit will do far, far more than enough. Nobody will celebrate and specially recognize you when you do the ordinary things required of you; but when you step out of the ordinary and put an “extra” effort, you become extraordinary, distinguished and you stand out from the crowd of average people.
Ecclesiastes 9:10 says, “Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might; for there is no work or device or knowledge or wisdom in the grave where you are going.”
The word of God also says, “Seest thou a man diligent in his business? He shall stand before kings; he shall not stand before mean (average, obscure, less important, people of low rank, unknown) men.” Proverbs 22:29
Action Nugget: Refuse to be average.