Present over perfect
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Bottomline: Jesus doesn’t desire perfection, He desires presence.
Bottomline: Jesus doesn’t desire perfection, He desires presence.
Funnest/best memory of when us boys were at home?
Funnest/best memory of when us boys were at home?
Tell us about picture day with Aaron...
Tell us about picture day with Aaron...
What words of wisdom would you give to mom’s out there today?
What words of wisdom would you give to mom’s out there today?
“[Present over perfect is] about rejecting the myth that every day is a new opportunity to prove our worth, and about the truth that our worth is inherent, given by God, not earned by our hustling.”
― Shauna Niequist
Your worth and value isn’t in a title, relationship, or productivity. It is in Jesus.
Your worth and value isn’t in a title, relationship, or productivity. It is in Jesus.
As Jesus and his disciples were on their way, he came to a village where a woman named Martha opened her home to him. She had a sister called Mary, who sat at the Lord’s feet listening to what he said. But Martha was distracted by all the preparations that had to be made. She came to him and asked, “Lord, don’t you care that my sister has left me to do the work by myself? Tell her to help me!”
“Martha, Martha,” the Lord answered, “you are worried and upset about many things, but few things are needed—or indeed only one. Mary has chosen what is better, and it will not be taken away from her.”
You cannot be perfect. Only Jesus can. But you can be in His presence.
You cannot be perfect. Only Jesus can. But you can be in His presence.
Three times I pleaded with the Lord to take it away from me. But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me. That is why, for Christ’s sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.
And so we know and rely on the love God has for us.
God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them. This is how love is made complete among us so that we will have confidence on the day of judgment: In this world we are like Jesus. There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love.
Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins.
Love covers our messy
Love covers our messy
God takes His perfection, mixes it with the blood of Jesus Christ, and paints his perfection over our imperfection. -Rick Warren