No One Is Perfect

Ecclesiastes 7:20

"For there is not a Just man upon earth,

that doeth good, and sinneth not."

        I had just built new steps on our back deck, because the other ones where ready to fall at any moment. Now I must say myself, "That is a fine set of steps." So next I poured a concrete pad at the base of the steps, and my wife and I got it all painted, than it happened. I stepped back about 30 feet to see how good it looked, and there it was, the pad was not level with one side of the steps. I said to my wife, "How did that happen, it was level when I set it up and poured it!" She said, I don't doubt you, but "no one is perfect."  

       Those words really struck me. Not just because of the realization that even the finest works of architecture possessed flaws, but because I knew she was talking to my soul. Like many folks, I have strived to be perfect. And trying to be flawless is such a heavy burden to bear because it’s impossible to ever achieve perfection. By definition, being human means making mistakes.

      The recognition that nobody is perfect, except our LORD and SAVIOR, and by accepting our limitations allows us to go beyond them. When we strive for perfection, we set ourselves up for a lifetime of disappointment, low self-esteem, and failure. But when we aim for excellence or progress or any other type of self-improvement, we are headed toward becoming the best that we can be.

      Sometimes, it takes a healthy dose of humility to start small, but anything big that was ever achieved started from humble beginnings. As Scripture teaches: "For who hath despised the day of small things? for they shall rejoice and shall see the plummet in the hand of Zerubbabel with those seven; they are the eyes of the Lord, which run to and fro through the whole earth," Zech. 4:10.     
      My Friends; today, together, let’s give up on trying to be perfect and rather commit ourselves to being our best. Remember, even the holiest of men and women have made mistakes. God doesn’t ask us to be perfect. Our job is to work on becoming better; perfection belongs only to God.

      Amen!

Reading: (Eccl. 7:15-29)

Ref: (HG SB)

May God Bless You

And Your Family

Minister Robert Lail Sr.

The Cross Life Ministry