People coming over. Redd-up the house. Everything just so. After the gathering, as I am cleaning up, I notice the back porch railings are dirty. Ugh! I thought everything was perfect. Now, everyone knows I have a dirty back porch. Not perfect. Flawed.
We all have things about ourselves that we like to “pretty up” for the world to see. When we allow our friends and family to get close, they see our flaws, our imperfections and love us anyway. My friends saw my dirty back porch, enjoyed the gathering and loved me anyway.
What a relief to be able to know we don’t have to be perfect. But God…sent His Son, the Perfect Man, to be the perfect sacrifice, the perfect plan of redemption only in His Son, Jesus Christ. Praise the Lord. I, an imperfect human, follow a perfect Savior. As such, Jesus wants me to come to Him, confess my flaws and imperfections and follow Him. He doesn’t want me to stay there, though. As I grow and mature in my faith, I see my flaws, my sins, give up the things that cause me to stumble and move closer to Him.
So, yes, the next time I had a gathering, my back porch railings were clean. But, this time, I noticed a dirty window. Ugh! Again, not perfection. But, I am learning, growing, seeing Jesus ever before me, striving under His Lordship. Not content to remain in my current, flawed self.