When desire intersects imperfection.
We long and desire for what we can not have. We look for ways to heal the hurts. We hear over and over it is up to us to make this life better. We must do our best to get what we so desire now. Yet when we think we have it all together that is when our heart hurts the most. All the effort we put in never fills the holes of our imperfect heart. We come face to face with our imperfection when we sin.
II Tim 4:21 Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a workman who does not need to be ashamed and who correctly handles the word of truth.
Do your best? What? Are you kidding.... Oh wait that is right we are not perfect nor can we be. It is only by the Grace of God that we can come close anywhere close to perfection. Even when we work as hard as we can, even when you have been in a situation many times, even when you have to make a hard choice, and when in these situations the choices are clear, we fall to the desire and sin. We find our selves in a moment looking up going why?
We have choices every day that will lead us to Christ. Just know that there is a loving God there when we take your eyes off him to catch us when we fall.
29 "Come," he said. Then Peter got down out of the boat, walked on the water and came toward Jesus. 30 But when he saw the wind, he was afraid and, beginning to sink, cried out, "Lord, save me!" 31 Immediately Jesus reached out his hand and caught him. "You of little faith," he said, "why did you doubt?"
God is reaching out for us to take his hand. Let Him lead you to perfection. Keep your eyes on Him.
In the Garden of Eden before the fall there was no Rot or Rust, and God walked daily in the Garden with Adam and Eve. The Garden was God’s perfect dwelling place on earth. After the sin we were separated from God, and the rot of sin, and the rot of nature entered the world, once it became about “ME” and “US” and not God.
It is in those moments that we are down looking up figure out how you got there; we come face to face with our imperfection. God wants you to look up. Look up to the perfection hanging on the Cross and know that without Him hanging there, without the power of his Spirit, we will not achieve the perfection we were meant for when Christ returns.
II Cor 5: 21 God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
Gal 5:16 So I say, live by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the sinful nature.
We must play, work, serve, and do for Him. We have to know and do everything with Christ's perfection and sacrifice to mean something. We owe that to him for the sacrifice. God is our audience and we hope and pray that we will hear the words one day of "Well done good and faithful one".
