Today I sit at work and I look at the people around me and I
am happy. They are far from perfect, I am far from perfect and we are perfectly
okay with that. I like them they seem to like me, and so we get along. It is so
much easier, peaceful, and more joyful to live this way. I don’t have anyone
telling me I’m doing it wrong, they don’t have anyone telling them they are
doing it wrong. We just are who we are. Why can’t Christianity be this simple?
Yes we cuss; no we do not offend each other. We are
professional around clients. We do our jobs, we work ethically. When we go home
we have a beer. Yes we have problems. We have pasts, not all of us are on our
first marriage, but we have accepted that life has its ups and downs, and sometimes
a bottle of Jack Daniel’s can help you up from the down or make the up better. We realize that it isn’t
wise, but we also realize that it isn’t a complete catastrophe to be stupid.
For the most part we accept our flaws attempt to make them
better, or tell the other people they’re just going to have to live with it.
The other people grumble, and guess what; they learn to live with it. Being
flawed does not mean that you aren’t perfect. You can be perfectly flawed.
People who think they aren’t flawed are just plain crazy. Why have Christians
decided that they need to be like Christ? Christ was perfect; we will never be
perfect, so why are we aspiring to something we can never reach? That has only
proven to make people miserable.
Mat 5:48 “Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in
heaven is perfect.” Is the only time Jesus commanded us to be like Him, all the
other times, He simply said “Follow me.” When Christ commanded people to be as
perfect as God He was adding guilt onto an already guilty nation to show them
that to be perfect was impossible. This was so that they would accept His
sacrifice without question, His fulfillment of the law with celebration. They
would be a tired nation, a nation who needed a savior. Christ fulfilled the
law. We are no longer to be perfect; by His grace we are perfect.
STOP trying to be perfect. Live life, have fun. Love people. You
will fail. This does not mean that you have failed God, He expected you to fail,
He expects you to dust yourself off and keep going. He sees you as perfect,
Christ did that for you. Why does it seem so impossible for most Christian’s to
enjoy their life?
Enjoy yours, yes we were promised that we would be persecuted, we
were promised that life would be rough, we were also promised that His yoke
would be easy and His burden would be light. Enjoy being made pure, enjoy His love,
enjoy His grace, enjoy life, enjoy the gifts He’s given.
