With God everything is of the finest quality. There are no shortcuts, or second best. When God created the world, and everything in it, including every living creature, He did it with excellence.
For years, I have prayed that I would have a spirit of excellence, that my spirit man would exemplify the very best. The reason is simple. I want to be like my Father.
With God, all of creation flowed from His Spirit of excellence, including us, made in His image. From my perspective it can’t get any better than that.
Knowing that we are made in the image of God means that we are of the finest quality, no mistakes, and no second best. Furthermore, made in God’s image means that every single life has value, has purpose, and has a declared destiny from conception.
Whatever God does, He does well, and reading about the very first recorded miracle that Jesus did in Cana of Galilee was one of them. When Jesus turned the water into wine at the wedding, it was of the finest quality. Scripture tells us in John 2:10 what the headwaiter declared upon tasting the wine. He said, “Everyone sets out the fine wine first, then, after people are drunk the inferior, but you have kept the fine wine until now.”
In this life, there are days that we need to be reminded of God’s excellent taste. We may believe that we have seen and tasted the very best now, but that is far from what God’s Word tells us. We should enjoy today, but do so knowing that there is still better awaiting us.
God’s Word says that we have not seen or imagined what He has in store for us, and yet if we continue to read further in Scripture it declares that even these things have been revealed to us by the Holy Spirit. It is the Holy Spirit that searchers the deep things of God, and then to those that love God, there is revelation.
1 Peter 2:9 ESV But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for His own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light.