What are you Excellent at?

Proverbs 12:24

The hand of the diligent will rule, while the slothful will be put to forced labor.

    "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act, but a habit.” (quote by Aristotle) Many of us have the desire do something excellent with our life, we even dream of making an impact to in the world we live, so we often look for an opportunity to do something great. Well the issue with that is, everyone doesn't hit the lottery and even those who hit the lottery have a low percentage of making an impact because they have not developed the nature of excellence. Those who develop for themselves a learned behavior of diligence through consistently being diligent, create a life style of opportunity rather than a window of opportunity that opens and closes without warning.

   The hand of the diligent will rule; notice also Proverbs 6:6-8, “go to the ant, O sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise. Without having any chief, officer, or ruler, she prepares her bread in summer and gathers her food in harvest.” When there is business to be done, there is work to be done and if we can collectively receive the mindset of the diligent, we will create for ourselves a cycle of perpetual reaping and harvesting. Excellence is not an act; but a habit, this quote exemplifies the nature of Christ to which we should consistently strive to imitate. Prior to His death on the cross, Jesus exemplified a lifestyle where people looked upon Him with amazement and said He does all things well (Mark 7:37). That attitude was birthed out of His habits. Today is a short, but simple question, what habits do you have that imitate the slothful? Not consistently educating yourself and growing places you in force labor. Habits are created through consistency, if you’re consistently lazy you will develop a habit of being lazy and you will be excellent at it. BE DILIGENT for the diligent will rule!!