“Anybody can do their best, but we are helped by the Spirit of God to do better than our best.”  
— Catherine Booth

I’ve really struggled with the line above because I’m not sure what my best looks like. Don’t ask me to remember the last time I allowed myself to call something the best that I could do. You know, that really sucks. Not only does it not acknowledge my own ability, but it discounts the opinions of others. Wait, more than that it does not allow me to place a value on the help of the Spirit of God. Does it?

Oh my goodness, an epiphany. If I don’t know what my best looks like that is a bad thing. It means that I have not explored the boundaries of what God has gifted me with. Yikes. It’s like I am running a race and never reaching that point where I could go no further without His Spirit.

I want to know where my limitations are, because by knowing them I will more frequently call on God, and I will grow closer to Him, and I will expand my abilities. I say that with fear and trembling though.