Today's Thought - 99.9% efficiency

Saturday 2 February, 2008 subscribe | unsubscribe | respond | prayer | archive

99.9% efficiency?

I remember attending a training course, where the trainer stressed the need for 100% efficiency.

He started explaining, “There are certain areas of the modern-day world where even 99.9% efficiency simply won’t do.” “Imagine the ‘confusion’ in banks”, his voice boomed, after a pause “if they are only 99.9% efficient in posting ledger entries, how many wrong entries would there be, leading to acute customer dissatisfaction…"

“For that matter if there is only 99.9% perfection in maternity hospitals, how many parents would end up with children, who are not actually theirs?” All the trainees nodded approvingly.

That set me thinking ‘How many times we are less than 100% obedient to our Heavenly Father? If the service providers are not satisfied with any thing less than 100% efficiency, then why we should be content with less than 100% obedience to our Creator and Redeemer, while serving Him?

“So our aim is to please Him always

in everything we do,

whether we are here in this body or

away from this body and with Him in heaven.”

II Corinthians 5:9

By the way, “How’s your spiritual efficiency, today?”