This is a message from leading the way with Dr. Michael Youssef.

We pray that it will encourage you in your walk of faith.

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You know, if I ask the question, how many of you would want to live life at its best?

Most likely, I would get it just about every hand is raised.

And that's good, and that is right, because God created us to live life at its best.

It is God's desire for each one of us to live our life at its best.

But the question arises of the definition of best. What does best mean? What is life at its best

mean? Who decides what is best? And I thought, it's better for me to illustrate what I'm

trying to say with somebody actually wrote this story. And it's about a young man who went to the

beach for vacation. And he took his goldfish with him. He would go every morning and soak the

sun, enjoy the surf, and loves life at its best for him.

But after a few days of doing that, he began to feel guilty. Here I am, enjoying life in the sun and the surf.

But Goldie is all by itself there in the card dominium. So one day, out of guilty, he said, I better help Goldie get

part of that action. So he said, Goldie tomorrow, you and I are going to get some action.

You're going to come and enjoy life at its best just like I do. And so he, in the morning, he takes

Goldie out of the fishbowl and he wraps it in a washcloth and takes it with him to the beach and there he puts Goldie right next to him.

And he sat in the sun and he looks at Goldie and says, now Goldie, that is life at its best. Live it up. Live it up.

And if you say to me, there couldn't be no more foolishness than this,

you're right. There couldn't be no more foolishness than that. Why? Because life at its best for that gold

fish was not meant to be in the beach or any fish for that matter, because it will most surely die.

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