Monday; November 30
I didn’t do my best the other day. The reason this bugs me is that I knew what was coming and I still didn’t do my best. I was in a situation where I knew what was going to happen. I was going to be put to the test and it was going to take me being on my best game to do what I knew I should do. I knew it would happen – it did happen – and … I didn’t do my best! I think what is frustrating about this is that the situation didn’t sneak up on me, I was planning for it, but I guess I just wasn’t prepared for it. If there is any consolation in this for me it comes in the fact that I am not the only one who has ever been caught in this conundrum. In fact even the Apostle Paul admitted, “For what I am doing, I do not understand; for I am not practicing what I would like to do, but I am doing the very thing I hate.” (Romans 7:15). While this rationale does ease some of the sting of the disappointment, I know I need to better, especially when I have a good idea of what is coming. So, h