“Lord, you know I did my best, but ...”
Uh, no. Cease narration. Start deconstructing.
Too many words for one thing, all of them unnecessary. It’s
one of those “empty phrases” Matthew talks about. The Lord knows whether I did my best or not. Chances are I
didn’t. Maybe it was a 50% effort, maybe it was 80 or 95, but there’s always
more I could have done. Because he would do more. He did more.
In any case it’s unnecessary. What I’m really doing is
writing a sales pitch for the only Person in the universe who already knows the
whole truth of the matter. I often don’t.