Excellence not Perfection

Excellence is working like everything depends on you, but praying like everything depends on God!

Some thoughts:
We have the free will to do whatever we want to do, but if God sees our hard work I think He gives us more to work with (Luke 16:10 ""Whoever can be trusted with very little can also be trusted with much, and whoever is dishonest with very little will also be dishonest with much."). God isn't asking us for perfection. He is asking us to try. To give it our all and to rely on Him. Secondly, we must pray hard, not to receive blessings but to receive life. Everything in our life depends on that relationship. Nothing we do will succeed if it is not God's will so we must pray so that the hard work we do will line up with God will. Through this excellence (NOT PERFECTION) can be reached. Perfection is not something that we should even strive for because the only person that was and every will be perfect was Jesus, but we can reach excellence in our lives. So strive to live a life of excellence not perfection by making an effort to work like it is all on you but pray like it is all on God!