I am still STRIVING to be PERFECT.
To always respond~
PERFECTLY.
To always say the right thing~
PERFECTLY.
To always feel~
PERFECTLY.
To always choose
JESUS~
PERFECTLY
when the arrows of
TRIGGERS
come flying through the air
headed right to my heart.
Oh how I so desire to always RESPOND
just like JESUS would
in every circumstance
as I lean on HIM~
instead of leaning on
my feeling emotions
that make me be so
REACTIONARY.
For in those moments
I become so human
that I REACT
with every full blown emotion~
PERFECTLY~
opposite of how I want to RESPOND.
Oh I wish
TRIGGERS were NO LONGER AN OPTION,
but they are and always be
as long as we walk this earth being our
PERFECTLY human selves.~
"It happens so regularly that it’s predictable.
The moment I decide to do good, sin is there to trip me up.
I truly delight in GOD'S commands, but it’s pretty obvious that not all of me joins in that delight. Parts of me covertly rebel, and just when I least expect it, they take charge.
I’ve tried everything and nothing helps.
I’m at the end of my rope.
Is there no one who can do anything for me? Isn’t that the real question?"*
Oh but GOD has provided the PERFECT RESPONSE to that question~
"The answer, thank GOD, is that JESUS CHRIST can and does.
HE acted to set things right in this life of contradictions where I want to serve GOD with all my heart and mind, but am pulled by the influence of sin to do something totally different" *
(Romans 7:21-25).
So in these moments
I am gently reminded that
I will never ever ever
be the PERFECT JESUS RESPONDER
in every moment,
But
JESUS will always be my
PERFECT RESPONDER
as I continue to
make HIM my ONLY OPTION
after I have REACTED in my humanism
just because
JESUS nailed every
IMPERFECT part of me
and every IMPERFECT part of you
on that
PERFECT CROSS
so we don't have to strive to
PERFECTLY RESPOND to all TRIGGERS,
when instead we can look at JESUS
as HE looks back at us
with HIS FACE of FORGIVENESS
that washes IMPERFECT away
as we become enveloped in
HIS
"PERFECT LOVE" (listen to the song below)
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