Linda and I took a gun class on Saturday.
We learned lots of things we didn’t know about gun safety and laws.
For ½ day we sat in class and listened to the instructor.
We had our photo id’s taken and were fingerprinted.
Then the part that made most participants nervous came; the time to go on the range and qualify with a handgun.
The regulation target is a silhouette of a person with areas marked off that give points for hitting that area.
50 rounds of ammunition are fired from 3 different distances and different intervals.
A perfect score is 250.
Being the self-competitor that I am, of course I tried to hit every round in the center for a perfect score.
Some how I missed once and ended up with a 249.
Regardless those did somewhat worse and scored 170 also passed the exercise, since that was the lowest passing score allowed.
That gets me to thinking that I tried my best just as much as everyone else tried their best.
Isn’t that what God ask us you and me; just to try our best?
It doesn’t matter if you can or can’t preach; try your best with what you can do.
If you can’t sing, then do your best at what you can do.
If you can’t teach, then do your best at what you can do.
This is all that the apostle instructed us to do; Not that I have already attained, or am already perfected; but I press on, that I may lay hold of that for which Christ Jesus has also laid hold of me. Phil 3:12
He wasn’t perfect and probably never attained that high goal.
But he kept pressing on, moving forward, doing his best.
Mother Theresa once said, “God has not called me to be successful; he has called me to be faithful.”
And so she pressed on, just as you and I should do.
It is better to try and fail than to not try and succeed.
Push on and do your best!