Beyond Mediocre

My mother is a retired teacher. I remember when she taught she would always give assignments to challenge her students to go beyond what was required.

Many students are taught enough to just get by. As the students grow to adults they have a hard time because they spend 13 years of their life practicing how to just get by. As adults many of them struggle settling with low expectations of just getting by.

One story that captures my curiosity is the story of the lame beggar. He was a man that had been cripple since birth. People would go to where he was everyday of his life and pick him up and carry him to the temple gate called Beautiful.

For over 40 years (Acts4:22) he sat in front of the church begging. He was in a hopeless state, unable to stand on his own two feet.

One day the lame man saw Peter and John and he asked them for money. Peter looked straight at him, as did John. Then Peter said, "Look at us!" So the man gave them his attention, expecting to get something from them," (Acts 3:4-5).

Peter told him I don’t have any money, “but what I have I give you. In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, walk," (Acts 3:7).

The lame man spent 40 years with low expectations asking for just enough to get by. Everyday he would sit at the gate asking for money. Some are asking for money today. Like the lame man they never ask for what they need to be a blessing to someone else, just enough to make it by.

Everyday God issues assignments to cause us to hunger after higher expectations. My mother gave her students assignments that made them go beyond the call because she wanted them to desire more out of life.

How is your posture? Can you stand or are you leaning over? Should the King of king’s desire mediocre for His children? Even a baby desires to stand?

Perhaps you should ask God to help you stand. Maybe God is not hearing your request because blessing your request won’t necessarily bless another. Reflect on not living a life as a second-rate child.

Consider changing your request to a testimony. Pray to God that you walk in Jesus name. Call upon the Lord to give you strength to stand on your own two feet. Ask God to create in you a clean spirit and not a average spirit. Pray that you take responsibility of your decisions under God’s authority. For you are a child of the Almighty King.