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Daily reminder: I am not perfect.

by | May 2, 2023

Daily reminder: I am not perfect.

And neither are you. But yet we look at others and think “Look, they got it all together, I wish I had that” or we say something to a loved one like: “They’re perfect in how they did that, why can’t you be more like them?” knowing full well, that person is not perfect.

Having love and grace for others means having the wisdom to accept your imperfections first, not point at others.

This is true self-love.

Once you can really understand how imperfect you are, then you can have the love and grace to accept the imperfection in others.

It’s when we’re blind, ignorant, or unwilling to see our own imperfections that we end up blaming everyone else for our problems. “If I just had what they had, I’d be happy” You’re putting yourself into someone else’s shoes that just don’t fit.

Self-love isn’t about putting yourself before others or pampering yourself because “you deserve it”. Self-love is knowing like everyone else, you fall short. You’re a work in progress. You’re loved for how you are today, but who you are today is not who you were meant to be tomorrow.

Understand that there is a loving God that died for you and has grace for who you are today, but he’s got bigger and better plans for you tomorrow. Bigger and better than you can even fathom.

The question is, are you ready to see yourself as a broken sinful person who needs the grace of God so that He can work on the person He wants you to become? Most people don’t because they’re too comfortable in their own shoes. They’re not comfortable stepping out of them to feel the imperfection around themselves.

That my friend is the question we must be willing to ask multiple times a day.

Not that we are just reminded of how flawed we are, but as a reminder of the grace He has given us so that we can be better in Him by having a relationship with Him.

This is my daily reminder of why I’m not perfect.

 

Romans 5:8 (NKJV) But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

I John 4:9 (NKJV) In this the love of God was manifested toward us, that God has sent His only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through Him.

I John 4:18 (NKJV) There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear involves torment. But he who fears has not been made perfect in love.

Psalms 18:32 (NKJV) It is God who arms me with strength,,And makes my way perfect.

Job 36:4 (NKJV) For truly my words are not false;,One who is perfect in knowledge is with you.

Ezekiel 28:15 (NKJV) You were perfect in your ways from the day you were created,,Till iniquity was found in you.

I Corinthians 13:4-7 (NKJV) Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up; does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil; does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

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There is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free, nor is there male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

 

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