ATTRACTION BY EXCELLENCE
Virtues are good things, and we must develop and grow in them. This is true both of Spiritual and natural virtues.
1Timothy 4:15 KJV
Meditate upon these things; give thyself wholly to them; that thy profiting may appear to all.
Dear Believer,
Virtues are good things, and we must develop and grow in them. This is true both of Spiritual and natural virtues.
For example, consistency is a virtue that may not be natural to some growing Believers. They may spend time to pray today or develop some business skill and then get distracted tomorrow and generally be inconsistent about what really matters to their life.
Now, it gets to a point in your life when people see the fruit of your secret exertions. You cannot hide what you do in private forever. If people don’t see you do it, the results of what you do will eventually show. That is why Jesus said,
Luke 12:2 KJV
For there is nothing covered, that shall not be revealed; neither hid, that shall not be known.
In the focus scripture of today, Paul tells us that if we want excellence to manigest in our lives for all to see, we must do two things.
One, we must meditate on certain things. Two, we must give ourselves totally to them.
He is talking about spiritual virtues, gifts and the Word of God. You must apply this to everything in your life. There’s no shortcut to excellence, be it of spiritual, intellectual or otherwise. You will have to spend time filling your spirit with those good things and then dedicate yourself to them.
This is to discourage half-hearted commitment. Indolence and slackness don’t have a place in a Believer’s life.
We have been called to ‘glory and excellence.’
2Peter 1:3 NET
I can pray this because his divine power has bestowed on us everything necessary for life and godliness through the rich knowledge of the one who called us by his own glory and excellence. (‘Glory and virtue’ in the KJV).
It is not your responsibility to call attention to yourself. When you do these two things and others things specified in the scripture, your ‘profiting’ will ‘appear to all,’ and no one will be able to ignore you.
That means you attract people to yourself in public by the excellence you acquired through the competence developed in private.
That is a pattern that doesn’t fail.
Have a beautiful day.
Your friend,
Deon.
Deon Akintomide is a Pastor, author and publisher. He teaches the Word of God and ministers healing to the body and the mind. He is the founding minister of the LifeHouse Global Missions and the Pastor of The LifeHouse Kingdom Centre in Lagos. Deon is married to Tola Akintomide.
