Excellence is defined simply as being of outstanding quality or merit by the dictionary of current English. Excellence comes from your commitment to getting it right.
And as it had been from the beginning when God finished with the work of creation and He saw everything that he had made, and, behold, it was very good, begins to illuminate our steps with the manner of excellence that we ought to show.
Let us step back a bit, as though to peep on the work of creation.
In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. And the story goes on till the third day after he had done with creation for that day he said to himself, this is good.
We can only begin to revel in the words of this scripture when we understand, that prior to this very point, nothing that is being revealed had ever been before. Everything was the concept of one mind, which even the hosts of heaven could not fathom. And as he peeled back ignorance (unawareness) after ignorance to reveal what could be, creation, as was then, stood back in awe. For never in their minds, note even in a million years or the entire length of eternity, would they have begun to understand the extent to which the Very God of Very God could impose His will on the temporal.
And so it continued to be an awe-inspiring sight as He made the fourth day to pass before Him and the fifth and when they came to a close, they were as they had never been before. Yes he created the fountains and the mountains and the springs and the brooks. And the earth swelled in pride and burst forth with green blades of grass, herb yielding seed, and the numerous fruit trees yielding fruits after their kind, in response to the sound of the voice that everything created and uncreated hears, and comes to attention.
And though there had been days counted according to the times and season of man, who as of yet had not become, He made the lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night, so that could be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years. And it pleased Him yet as His creation gave ear to His desire.
And the Waters got their instructions and they began to creatively put together all manners of DNA that was vested in them from their own calling forth. From fishes to fowls of the air did the waters bring forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
But He wasn’t satisfied just yet. For in Him everything that was to be had already been completed even before He opened His mouth and began to give voice to the expression of His heart.
For by now, creation as it were had begun to see a pattern to what the owner of the heavens, and the earth desired. For how could the waters have brought forth the fishes, in their various sizes, for they yet were unnamed, and the earth be stayed from yielding her first produce? For it was it not inherent in the earth to do such? And so out it poured forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and the hosts of heaven could not contain their delight at the works of His hands. For there in each proceeding work of creation, was the revelation, one glorious sight after another, of the intricate mind and purpose of the great God.
But yet he was not through, for all that had come before this point, were all a build to this present moment. He had planned and fathomed the entire needs of this yet to be created, very image of Himself: a creation so very much like him, that to be called Lord of the earth even as He was Lord of the heavens, was a befitting title.
And so God created man in his own image, in the image of Elohim created He Adam; and in saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moves upon the earth; He gave them the same mind that was in Him. He gave them the mind to purpose a thing, and be committed to seeing it through to the end. And when he stepped back to survey the wondrous works of His hands He was well pleased and said to Himself, this is very good.
He did not take lightly the work of creation but made sure to supervise every detail in the process. His mind was one; that everything that was made, is very good.
And back again into the present we see more clearly, just as the father sees. For we have the mind of Christ, who was conceived of the Holy Spirit which was from the beginning; before time began. We have the same spirit that was with God; that is God.
Here is the truth. From the very beginning He has set a standard for us to walk in. Look up! Rise up! Excellence is your nature. The Entire creation awaits your manifestation; you are the joy of many generations.
You Are!
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