11-26-11
“He did deliver me
from bondage” p.129-
Step 10:
“The mighty change of heart does not bring me
to a state of perfection but rather to a state of continual repentance and
abhorrence of sin.”
p. 130 I like this
sentence:
“The mighty change of
heart does not bring us to a state of perfection, but rather convinces us of
our own powerlessness to be perfect, and turns us to know and trust Him who is
perfect enough for us all. The word
repentance means literally to “turn again”.
I think I have been trying all my life- trying so hard to try to
‘be perfect’ because I thought that we have to earn our way or that we have to
prove ourselves in self-mastery, or that we have to look that way to the other
people at church… I’m not sure exactly what it is. I think sometimes at church I got the feeling
that everyone was trying to appear to be perfect and I thought I had to do it
too. Maybe it’s a paradigm of the” game
of the inner ring” (CS Lewis) that is perpetuated subconsciously, like the
‘rage of the mob’ that takes over causing people to do things they wouldn’t
normally do… Hum. I guess that’s a result of environment. Anyway, this sentence is so liberating. I am so thankful I don’t have to try to
appear to be perfect anymore, because the gospel is one of repentance and not
one of perfection.
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