Excellence is not an end in itself, rather a means to an end. God gave us His best and gave us a world created with excellence in every way. Our end as believers is the ministry of reconciliation. II Corinthians 5:18.
When we steward our gift and master our medium it allows us to offer our best to God and communicate the excellence of God and His kingdom to the world in a way worthy of the Kingdom. God never said “that’s close enough” and neither should we.
Mastering Our Medium
A.W. Tozer
God has honored human speech by using it as a medium through which to express His message of salvation, first in the inspired Scriptures and afterwards in a thousand languages and dialects among the nations of mankind. Language is the mighty organ upon which may be played the joyous oratorio of redemption for the blessing of men and for the high honor of God.
Among the countless gifts of God, one of the most precious to us is our beautiful, expressive English tongue. That such a gift should be neglected by busy men and women in their wild race to make a living is at least understandable, if unfortunate; but that it should be neglected as well by the ministers of the sanctuary is not only impossible to understand but completely inexcusable.
For the very reason that God has committed His saving truth to the receptacle of human language, the man who preaches that truth should be more than ordinarily skillful in the use of language. It is necessary that every artist master his medium, every musician his instrument. For a man calling himself a concert pianist to appear before an audience with but a beginner’s acquaintance with the keyboard would be no more absurd than for a minister of the gospel to appear before his congregation without a thorough knowledge of the language in which he expects to preach.
Tozer Devotional :: The Alliance
