Devotional Thought: Do your best

2 Tim. 2:15 ‘Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a workman who does not need to be ashamed and who correctly handles the word of truth.’

Do your best

· Be diligent, to use speed, to labour, to study.

To present yourself

· To put yourself before or to exhibit yourself

To God

· To an audience of one.

· God should be the one and only focus of this exhibition

· You are Presenting yourself to Him and Him alone.

As one approved

· To have been tried and tested.

· Prove: To establish the validity of something.

A workman

· Someone who is skilled, diligent and faithful.

Who does not need to be ashamed

· Who has confidence in who he is and what he is doing.