Give Your Best and Let Others Do the Rest

I’ve often heard Christians say, “Give it your best, and let God do the rest.” That might be in scripture somewhere, but I’m not positive.

I’ve also heard Abe Lincoln say, “Pray like it all depends on God, and work like it all depends on you.”

Both of these are powerful statements implying that we can’t do everything. All we can do is give our best effort, then allow others (or God) to do what they can.

As leaders the only thing we can do is:

• Perform our best
• Serve our people the best we can
• Prepare them the best we can
• Equip them the best we can
• Develop them the best we can

Then allow them to do the rest from there.

Once we’ve done the best we can, then it’s out of our hands and it’s up to them to keep going and to do there best from that point forward.