{"id":21059,"date":"2014-08-07T00:15:22","date_gmt":"2014-08-07T04:15:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/?p=21059"},"modified":"2014-08-06T19:12:50","modified_gmt":"2014-08-06T23:12:50","slug":"ill-best","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/2014\/08\/07\/ill-best\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;ll Do My Best For You"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/psalmshymnsspiritualsongskjv.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16629\" src=\"http:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/psalmshymnsspiritualsongskjv.jpg\" alt=\"psalmshymnsspiritualsongskjv\" width=\"341\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/psalmshymnsspiritualsongskjv.jpg 341w, https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/psalmshymnsspiritualsongskjv-300x175.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 341px) 100vw, 341px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Love<br \/>\nI&#8217;ll love<br \/>\nI&#8217;ll love You, Lord<br \/>\nForever<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll do my best<br \/>\nI&#8217;ll do my best<br \/>\nOh, I&#8217;ll do my best for You<br \/>\nOh, oh, oh<br \/>\nI&#8217;ll do my best<br \/>\nI&#8217;ll do my best<br \/>\nOh, I&#8217;ll do my best for You<\/p>\n<p>Serve<br \/>\nI&#8217;ll serve<br \/>\nI&#8217;ll serve You, Lord<br \/>\nForever<\/p>\n<p>Praise<br \/>\nI&#8217;ll praise<br \/>\nI&#8217;ll praise You, Lord<br \/>\nForever<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll love<br \/>\nI&#8217;ll serve<br \/>\nI&#8217;ll praise You, Lord<br \/>\nForever<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll do my best<br \/>\nI&#8217;ll do my best<br \/>\nI&#8217;ll do my best<br \/>\nOh, I&#8217;ll do my best for You<br \/>\nOh, oh, oh<br \/>\nI&#8217;ll do my best<br \/>\nI&#8217;ll do my best<br \/>\nOh, I&#8217;ll do my best for You<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FTKFCAkijak?rel=0\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Jamie Statema, Jason Folkmann and Andy Selness\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0aka, The GoFish Guys<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\">*\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0~\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u2665 \u00a0 ~\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u271e\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0~ \u00a0\u2665 \u00a0\u00a0~ \u00a0 *<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/littlebluetoothspkr.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-21137\" src=\"http:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/littlebluetoothspkr-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"littlebluetoothspkr\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We (meaning the grandkids and I!) have been getting our groove on recently since we purchased an adorable little bluetooth speaker. \u00a0(At least \u2018til the speaker or the device we are using loses it charge!) \u00a0\ud83d\ude09 \u00a0Of course, they each have their favorites! But this little song from the GoFish Guys seems to be popular on everyone\u2019s playlist!<\/p>\n<p>I asked them \u201cWhat does it mean to \u2018<strong><em>do my best\u2019<\/em><\/strong> for God?\u201d \u00a0Kaylie Joy responded, \u201cWelllllll, I <em>guess<\/em> it means to obey Him&#8230;the best I can.\u201d \u00a0Levi, singing away (with his voice AND his body!), \u201cobey my dad and mom&#8230;and you, too, TaTa!\u201d \u00a0And when I prompted Elijah, a man of few words, singing \u201cDo you want to want to love God forever?\u201d he signed \u2018LOVE\u2019 right back to me.<\/p>\n<p>And I thought to myself that from their perspective, it is pretty darn simple. \u00a0But sometime it gets rather complicated for me. \u00a0 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 <em><strong>do my best<\/strong><\/em>for my God. \u00a0(Ummmm&#8230;no.) \u00a0I was convicted in my heart&#8230;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. \u00a0The motivation for <em><strong>do<\/strong><\/em><strong><em>ing my best<\/em><\/strong> for God is\u00a0<strong><em>LOVE<\/em><\/strong>\u2014<em>His love for me<\/em> and me proving<em> my love for Him<\/em>!<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>His love for us<\/em><\/span>\u00a0(oh-how-He-loves-us-so!\u00a0) is unconditional. \u00a0We cannot earn&#8230;or do anything to provoke Him to love us. \u00a0He simply DOES love us.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">For God so greatly loved and dearly prized the world that He [even] gave up<br \/>\nHis only begotten Son, so that whoever believes in Him shall not perish<br \/>\n(come to destruction, be lost) but have eternal (everlasting) life.<br \/>\nJohn 3:16<\/p>\n<p>And <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">our love for Him<\/span><\/em>\u00a0 is proven or shown by our adherence to His commands.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">But whoever keeps His word, in him truly the love of God is perfected.<br \/>\n1 John 2:5<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">By this we know that we love the children of God,<br \/>\nwhen we love God and observe His commandments.<br \/>\n1 John 5:2<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">For this is the love of God, that we keep His commandments.<br \/>\nAnd His commandments are not burdensome.<br \/>\nVerse 3<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">And this is love, that we walk according to His commandments&#8230;.<br \/>\n2 John 1:6<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">If you love Me, you will keep My commandments.<br \/>\nJohn 14:15<\/p>\n<p>So &#8216;<em><strong>doing my best<\/strong><\/em>\u2019 for God is much more about loving Him and wanting to live in such a way that proves my love! \u00a0Whether I am serving Him, praising Him, or loving others&#8230;it is all to say \u2018I love You, Lord!\u2019 \u00a0And any good works that I do, as I endeavor to <em><strong>do my best<\/strong><\/em> for Him, are all for His glory!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God!<br \/>\n1 Corinthians 10:31<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">To the praise of the glory of His grace, where in He hath made us accepted in the Beloved.<br \/>\nEphesians 1:6<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Love I&#8217;ll love I&#8217;ll love You, Lord Forever I&#8217;ll do my best I&#8217;ll do my best Oh, I&#8217;ll do my best for You Oh, oh, oh I&#8217;ll do my best I&#8217;ll do my best Oh, I&#8217;ll do my best for You Serve I&#8217;ll serve I&#8217;ll serve You, Lord Forever Praise I&#8217;ll praise I&#8217;ll praise You, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":16629,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4937],"tags":[235,1287,425,6970,6971,4932],"class_list":["post-21059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-psalms-hymns-and-spiritual-songs","tag-coleen-hayden","tag-gch","tag-girlfriends-coffee-hour","tag-gofish-guys","tag-ill-do-my-best-for-you","tag-psalms-hymns-spiritual-songs","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/psalmshymnsspiritualsongskjv.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p39pHp-5tF","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21059"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21059\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21139,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21059\/revisions\/21139"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}