The Good Is Always The Enemy Of The Best

“‘I know your works: you are neither cold nor hot. Would that you were either cold or hot! So, because you are lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I will spit you out of my mouth." 

 Revelation 3:15-16

This makes me think of something Oswald Chambers says in My Utmost for His Highest. Chambers, I believe, rightly saw what keeps so many believers from truly living out their faith. He says, “The greatest enemy of the life of faith in God is not sin, but good choices which are not quite good enough. The good is always the enemy of the best.”[1] I doubt many of you are struggling with gross immoralities and heinous sin. What holds us back, more often, is filling our lives with things that are good, but not necessarily the best. Maybe some good things need to be painfully removed so that we remember that remaining connected to the vine—Christ—is all that matters. The goal should be to allow God to prune our lives, even the good things we are clinging to, so that we can be even more fruitful for His Kingdom.