Training is something every person goes through at some point. Athletes train for their sport. Scientists train their minds in a field of study. Everyone trains for a job at some point in their lives, even if it’s a world-class couch potato. That is just training your body to do nothing. School is simply training of the mind to hold facts and concepts.
Training to work for the Lord is something all christians should do… but this training often gets pushed to the back of our lives because of the training for everything else we are doing.
Training to work for the Lord is not something that happens before we work for him. Like most jobs, we are in the position before we get any kind of instruction. We are also expected to use the skills we know already, while we learn new ones.
Training also means a hard reality: We are not the best we can be yet. We still make mistakes and fall short of our goals.
There is also the reality of never knowing everything there is to know about God and Christianity. There are always gray areas and ideas we never thought of before.
If we put these two realities together, we discover that we are not the best, and we will never be the best. However, the more we train, the more we learn about God and ourselves. The more we train, the more knowledge we have to show others His Love. The harder we work at training to work for the Lord, the stronger we become as His workers.
I don’t know who said this, but I can’t take credit for it:
“You will never be the best, but you can be the hardest working.”
