"The Best You Can Be"

"The humble shall see this, and be glad: and your heart shall live that seek God." (Psalms 69:32) This goes way beyond trying to be something, because trying makes a chore out of everything that you try to do. It is more about being what God has made you to be, and then being the best you can; let God do His work in you, just don't resist His progress in you! Don't you know how that works by now? (Self speaking to self!) Seriously, I think sometimes that we want to fail, just so we don't have to get serious; just so we don't have to give our all, we don't give Him our all. James 4:8 says, "Draw nigh unto God, and He will draw nigh to you." That speaks about those "horns and hoofs" again from the last verse; it's defense and advance, almost every single day of your life! Defending what you have been given, and advancing forward in that grace you have been given; which means that you don't draw back into the world, but are always pressing, ever so patiently, towards perfection and holiness. We might know what we are, but we really don't know yet what we can be! Paul quotes Isaiah 64:4 in his letter to the Corinthian church (1 Corinthians 2:9), which he does to clarify something that every believe must accept in their hearts, which is the fact that without Christ we really can not do anything, but in Christ, we can do all things; but even still, we don't have any clue what those things we can do are, until Christ performs them in our lives. It is impossible to know what it feels like to walk in the power of the Holy Spirit, if you are not yielded to the power of the Holy Spirit; just as it is not possible to know what God has prepared for your life, until you give your life completely over to Him...
"Oh, that you would burst from the heavens and come down! How the mountain would quake in your presence! As fire causes wood to burn and water to boil, your coming would make the nations tremble. Then your enemies would learn the reason for your fame! When you came down long ago, you did awesome deeds beyond our highest expectations. And oh, how the mountains quaked! For since the world began, no ear has heard and no eye has seen a God like you, who works for those who wait for him! You welcome those who gladly do good, who follow godly ways. But you have been very angry with us, for we are not godly. We are constant sinners; how can people like us be saved? We are all infected and impure with sin. When we display our righteous deeds, they are nothing but filthy rags. Like autumn leaves, we wither and fall, and our sins sweep us away like the wind. Yet no one calls on your name or pleads with you for mercy. Therefore, you have turned away from us and turned us over to our sins. And yet, O LORD, you are our Father. We are the clay, and you are the Potter. We are formed by your hand." (Isaiah 64:1-8) NLT