I was thinking today about how imperfect this life can be. How imperfect human beings are. I was thinking about all of the heartache that comes from beings and a world that is not perfect. It seems we spend much of our lives trying to cope with situations and people, including ourselves, that are not perfect.
I was thinking about that and the struggle for peace, when it dawned on me that we weren't meant to live in these imperfect bodies, in this imperfect world. That was not the original plan. So, maybe that's why we have so much trouble and feel so much disappointment when the world is not as it should be. Maybe that is why we feel so devastated. We were meant to live in a very different kind of world. We were meant to be a very different kind of people. The original design consisted of absolute perfection created by God the Father. No wonder so much turmoil comes when life is imperfect. No wonder we spend so much time trying to fix things and make them right. It's in our make-up that things are right in the world.
Unfortunately, we are also sinners prone to make things as imperfect as they can be. We have a nature within us that is self-serving and greedy. What a dilemma? To have a part of us that craves the serenity of a calm and perfect world, but also have a part that creates chaos and pain. No wonder finding balance is so difficult.
The great thing is that Jesus came here and showed us that it can be done. "It" is living in this world but not of it. We can live in the midst of this craziness without sinning. We may have sinned in the past, but with his strength, we no longer have to. We can be tempted in all ways, but remain without sin. The challenge is to be perfect, as He is perfect, in a world that gets more vile by the moment. Not that the perfection comes from us but from the one that created the perfection in the beginning. We have to be willing to trust that and believe it instead of the lies that seem to make things easy when they aren't. We have to rest in the perfection that is God.
One day,we will live in that perfect world the Father has for us. We will dwell with him. And oh, what a celebration there will be for all eternity!
I was thinking about that and the struggle for peace, when it dawned on me that we weren't meant to live in these imperfect bodies, in this imperfect world. That was not the original plan. So, maybe that's why we have so much trouble and feel so much disappointment when the world is not as it should be. Maybe that is why we feel so devastated. We were meant to live in a very different kind of world. We were meant to be a very different kind of people. The original design consisted of absolute perfection created by God the Father. No wonder so much turmoil comes when life is imperfect. No wonder we spend so much time trying to fix things and make them right. It's in our make-up that things are right in the world.
Unfortunately, we are also sinners prone to make things as imperfect as they can be. We have a nature within us that is self-serving and greedy. What a dilemma? To have a part of us that craves the serenity of a calm and perfect world, but also have a part that creates chaos and pain. No wonder finding balance is so difficult.
The great thing is that Jesus came here and showed us that it can be done. "It" is living in this world but not of it. We can live in the midst of this craziness without sinning. We may have sinned in the past, but with his strength, we no longer have to. We can be tempted in all ways, but remain without sin. The challenge is to be perfect, as He is perfect, in a world that gets more vile by the moment. Not that the perfection comes from us but from the one that created the perfection in the beginning. We have to be willing to trust that and believe it instead of the lies that seem to make things easy when they aren't. We have to rest in the perfection that is God.
One day,we will live in that perfect world the Father has for us. We will dwell with him. And oh, what a celebration there will be for all eternity!
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