Love
I’ll love
I’ll love You, Lord
Forever
I’ll do my best
I’ll do my best
Oh, I’ll do my best for You
Oh, oh, oh
I’ll do my best
I’ll do my best
Oh, I’ll do my best for You
Serve
I’ll serve
I’ll serve You, Lord
Forever
Praise
I’ll praise
I’ll praise You, Lord
Forever
I’ll love
I’ll serve
I’ll praise You, Lord
Forever
I’ll do my best
I’ll do my best
I’ll do my best
Oh, I’ll do my best for You
Oh, oh, oh
I’ll do my best
I’ll do my best
Oh, I’ll do my best for You
Jamie Statema, Jason Folkmann and Andy Selness
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My grandchildren (probably just like yours) love music! And they know oh-so-very many songs—from little ones Bible lullabies to Sunday School songs to popular praise&worship that their Dad and Mom (and PopPop and Tata!) play while travelling out and about. But this little song from the GoFish Guys seems to be popular on everyone’s playlist!
I asked them “What does it mean to ‘do my best’ for God?” Kaylie Joy responded, “Welllllll, I guess it means to obey Him…the best I can.” Levi, singing away (with his voice AND his body!), “obey my dad and mom…and you, too, TaTa!” And when I prompted Elijah, a man of few words, singing “God, I’ll love You forever” he signed ‘LOVE’ right back to me.
And I thought to myself that from their perspective, it is pretty darn simple. But sometime it gets rather complicated for me. At times, I am tempted to think that my efforts, my good works, my trying hard are the things that i should be doing to do my best for my God. (Ummmm…no.) I was convicted in my heart…as I realized it is no more complicated for me (a follower of Jesus Christ for almost 35 years) than for children who have just begun a relationship with Him. The motivation for each of us is exactly the same—doing my best for God is LOVE—His love for me and me proving my love for Him!
His love for us (oh-how-He-loves-us-so! ) is unconditional. We cannot earn…or do anything to provoke Him to love us. He simply DOES love us.
For God so greatly loved and dearly prized the world that He [even] gave up
His only begotten Son, so that whoever believes in Him shall not perish
(come to destruction, be lost) but have eternal (everlasting) life.
John 3:16
And our love for Him is proven or shown by our adherence to His commands.
But whoever keeps His word, in him truly the love of God is perfected.
1 John 2:5
By this we know that we love the children of God,
when we love God and observe His commandments.
1 John 5:2
For this is the love of God, that we keep His commandments.
And His commandments are not burdensome.
Verse 3
And this is love, that we walk according to His commandments….
2 John 1:6
If you love Me, you will keep My commandments.
John 14:15
So ‘doing my best’ for God is much more about loving Him and wanting to live in such a way that proves my love! Whether I am serving Him, praising Him, or loving others…it is all to say ‘I love You, Lord!’ And any good works that I do, as I endeavor to do my best for Him, are all for His glory!
So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do,
do all to the glory of God!
1 Corinthians 10:31
To the praise of the glory of His grace,
wherein He hath made us accepted in the Beloved.
Ephesians 1:6
