Devotionals

Excel

by PamFord Davis 
01/28/25
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My grades in Fayetteville Elementary school were mostly satisfactory. Our grading system was easy to explain; E represented excellent. S: satisfactory, N: needs improvement and U revealed unsatisfactory work. I vividly remember messages written by my teachers on report cards. Pamela would do better if she would apply herself...

Was an E grade attainable or out of my reach?

I thought that excellent meant perfect.

Dictionary definitions for excellent include having good qualities, in high degree, superior in worth or value, excels.

Could I excel in elementary school? Can I excel now?

I do know I’m not an overachiever; a perfectionist.

Some people (even plants) achieve more than expected.

While living in Goodwater, Alabama an outdoor plant caught my eye. Glancing through my living room window; I noticed one particular branch in our shrubbery. It was much higher than the rest; it excelled.

Are you excelling in knowledge and spiritual growth; am I?

…“so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through your faith. And may you, having been [deeply] rooted and [securely] grounded in love, be fully capable of comprehending with all the saints (God’s people) the width and length and height and depth of His love [fully experiencing that amazing, endless love]; and [that you may come] to know [practically, through personal experience] the love of Christ which far surpasses [mere] knowledge [without experience], that you may be filled up [throughout your being] to all the fullness of God [so that you may have the richest experience of God’s presence in your lives, completely filled and flooded with God Himself] (Ephesians 3:17-19 AMP).”