Practice Does Not Make Perfect

Isn't that what we are told in school, sports and life? Practice makes perfect!!?? Somehow, I think we have been set up. In reality, there is no such thing as perfect. Not on this earth anyway. Thanks to this hunt for perfection, we have an indebted society who continues to buy beyond their means because they think material gain somehow gets them closer to this unattainable perfection. Teenager girls battle this huge identity crisis because the perfectionistic ideals are blasted at them from every angle through social media. Teens feel they are never good enough; many of them end up in this twisted warp that if they can't be good enough they maybe they can somehow be bad enough. They turn to sex, drugs, porn, alcohol......and the list goes on. Adults seek perfection too, we can have the perfect amount of energy with a cup of coffee in the afternoon, a wrinkle free face with cosmetic surgery, politicians can even sell the perfect lie with enough money! Well, I would like to shed some light on this "perfect" situation. Money cannot buy perfection and even if it could.....you couldn't see it. Perfection is something that is on the inside. Isaiah 23:6 (NIV) says "You will keep in perfect peace all who trust in you, all whose thoughts are fixed on you! Jesus is perfect and when He lives on the inside of you, He brings His perfect peace that passes all understanding. No matter what you drive, how many scars you have, what life looks like on the outside for you right now........ His perfect peace is available to you. You can't buy it, it can only be downloaded from its main source. Trust in the Lord, put your faith in Him. He wants you to sleep well at night, He wants to take your anxiety and your worries. His yolk is easy and His burden is light and he wants you to cast your cares upon Him today. Do we trust that He really can take care of things. Or do we only want Him to step in once we have tried to handle life ourself and realize we are in a bail-out situation?
Our perception of perfect is twisted. God made us perfect, perfectly designed for what He has called us to do. What we think of as perfect is twistedly different from what God intended as perfect. He made you just the way you are. Love yourself more today. Love Jesus more today!
And go to sleep with His perfect peace in your heart tonight knowing that one day soon your bills won't matter, your to-do list won't matter, your social status won't matter, your dirty dishes won't matter. One day soon we will stand before the Perfect One and all that will matter is His message of Salvation, Hope and Peace and what we did with it while we were blessed to be here.

All of life comes down to just one thing. To know you oh Jesus and make you known.

Peace Out,
Jessica