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I'm OK and I'm On My Way!
How many times have you heard the expression, "Nobody's perfect"? We use and hear this expression almost every day. But it's trueI'm not perfect, you're not perfect, nobody's perfect. Hopefully though, we are all getting better, on our way to perfection. The important thing to remember is that even though we're not yet perfect we're still OK. Just because we haven't yet arrived doesn't mean that we're not on our way.
It's true that most of us still have a long way to go. I used to get discouraged about how far I had to go, and it seemed like I was reminded of it every day, even every hour. I carried a constant sense of failure, a feeling that I just was not what I needed to be, that I was not doing good enough, that I should try harderand yet when I did try harder, I only failed again.
I have now adopted a new attitude: "I'm not where I need to be, but thank God I am not where I used to be; I'm OK, and I'm on my way!" I now know with all my heart that God is not angry with me just because I have not yet arrived. He is pleased that I am pressing on, staying on the path. If you and I will just "keep on keeping on," God will be pleased with our progress.
Keep walking the walk by taking one step at a time. This is an important thing to remember. It is true that we have to keep pressing on, but thank God we don't have to hate and reject ourselves while we are trying to get to our destination.
If I invited you to take a walk, you would think I was crazy if I became angry after the first few steps because we had not yet arrived at our destination. We can understand ordinary things like this, and yet we have a difficult time understanding that God expects it to take some time for us to grow spiritually.
We don't think there is something wrong with one-year old children because they cannot walk perfectly. They fall down frequently, but we pick them up, love them, bandage them if necessary, and keep working with them. Surely our awesome God can do even more for us than we do for our children.
This process is always difficult. Growing and learning is never easy. But the changes make us a better person. We begin to think differently, then we begin to talk differently, and finally we begin to act differently. This is a process that develops in stages, and we must always remember that while it is taking place we can have the attitude, "I'm OK, and I'm on my way!"
Enjoy yourself while you are changing. Enjoy where you are on the way to where you are going. Enjoy the journey! Don't waste all of your "now time" trying to rush into the future. Remember, tomorrow will have troubles of its own (Matthew 6:34).
Today you may be wrestling with a bad temper and thinking if you could just get freedom in that area, everything would be all right. The thing is, you may have forgotten that God will then reveal something else that needs to be dealt with, and you will be back in the same frame of mind again, thinking, "If only I didn't have this problem, I could be happy." We must learn to look at these things in a new way.
We can be free to believe that we are indeed OK and on our waynot perfected yet, but pressing on. We can be free to enjoy life, enjoy God, and enjoy ourselves.
How many times have you heard the expression, "Nobody's perfect"? We use and hear this expression almost every day. But it's trueI'm not perfect, you're not perfect, nobody's perfect. Hopefully though, we are all getting better, on our way to perfection. The important thing to remember is that even though we're not yet perfect we're still OK. Just because we haven't yet arrived doesn't mean that we're not on our way.
It's true that most of us still have a long way to go. I used to get discouraged about how far I had to go, and it seemed like I was reminded of it every day, even every hour. I carried a constant sense of failure, a feeling that I just was not what I needed to be, that I was not doing good enough, that I should try harderand yet when I did try harder, I only failed again.
I have now adopted a new attitude: "I'm not where I need to be, but thank God I am not where I used to be; I'm OK, and I'm on my way!" I now know with all my heart that God is not angry with me just because I have not yet arrived. He is pleased that I am pressing on, staying on the path. If you and I will just "keep on keeping on," God will be pleased with our progress.
Keep walking the walk by taking one step at a time. This is an important thing to remember. It is true that we have to keep pressing on, but thank God we don't have to hate and reject ourselves while we are trying to get to our destination.
If I invited you to take a walk, you would think I was crazy if I became angry after the first few steps because we had not yet arrived at our destination. We can understand ordinary things like this, and yet we have a difficult time understanding that God expects it to take some time for us to grow spiritually.
We don't think there is something wrong with one-year old children because they cannot walk perfectly. They fall down frequently, but we pick them up, love them, bandage them if necessary, and keep working with them. Surely our awesome God can do even more for us than we do for our children.
This process is always difficult. Growing and learning is never easy. But the changes make us a better person. We begin to think differently, then we begin to talk differently, and finally we begin to act differently. This is a process that develops in stages, and we must always remember that while it is taking place we can have the attitude, "I'm OK, and I'm on my way!"
Enjoy yourself while you are changing. Enjoy where you are on the way to where you are going. Enjoy the journey! Don't waste all of your "now time" trying to rush into the future. Remember, tomorrow will have troubles of its own (Matthew 6:34).
Today you may be wrestling with a bad temper and thinking if you could just get freedom in that area, everything would be all right. The thing is, you may have forgotten that God will then reveal something else that needs to be dealt with, and you will be back in the same frame of mind again, thinking, "If only I didn't have this problem, I could be happy." We must learn to look at these things in a new way.
We can be free to believe that we are indeed OK and on our waynot perfected yet, but pressing on. We can be free to enjoy life, enjoy God, and enjoy ourselves.
