Having an Excellent Spirit

 

 1Kings 8:61 Let your heart therefore be perfect with the LORD our God, to walk in his statutes, and to keep his commandments, as at this day.

 

 We must strive to have an excellent spirit before God.   The LORD told Abraham:  walk before me and be perfect.  He would later tell us in the New Testament, be ye perfect as I am perfect.  Looking at the LORD as our example of excellence and perfection, we find that He made himself of no reputation, He was driven by the will of His Father and desired the good of others. He was not driven by gain.  Sin did not reign in his body.

 

 Matthew 19:21 Jesus said unto him, If thou wilt be perfect, go and sell that thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come and follow me.

 

 All that we truly have to return to the LORD is our self, which is our heart, or mind and our service.  Every-thing else including that, are the assets that the LORD has given to us.  The LORD is very concerned with the person that we are on the inside. This is the person that only He truly sees, our relationship with Him and our fellow man in this world.  It is not an incident of great rejoicing, our spiri