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Writer's pictureJoni

Day 18: Perfectly Imperfect



From the moment

I ANSWERED JESUS' INVITATION

and

RECEIVED HIM as my LORD AND SAVIOR,

I have been told by others

that I need to get

HELP.

I wondered what they were talking about,

because I now had THE ULTIMATE HELPER in my life~

JESUS CHRIST.

I not only wondered,

but

I even questioned if

JESUS was enough

and if maybe

I needed MORE HELP.

As a good student,

I dug into the scriptures

and had to find out all that was wrong with me,

because JESUS wasn’t enough to make me enough.

Looking back over those times,

GOD used them all for my GOOD,

as HE made me fall in LOVE with HIS WORD

and fall in LOVE with HIM and HIS SON.

And today,

as I am still told that I

NEED HELP,

I am finally closing that

DOOR

on those words that sting.

I know I needed HELP, as everyone does.

As I am a sinner, who JESUS died for.

Am I claiming to know it all

and that I am so PERFECT

that I don’t need to be accountable

for when I continue to fall short?

Not at all.

I look up to

MY HELPER,

to my JESUS,

who RECEIVED IMPERFECT me,

and who hasn’t stopped taking me

deeper into a relationship with HIM,

for where HE reveals more of HIMSELF

as

HE removes more of my stinky flesh

that strives to overtake me

and

tell me that I am not enough

and that

I NEED to be PERFECT

in order for others to LOVE me.

I am not PERFECT.

I will never be PERFECT.

I tried that lifestyle,

and you know what,

you find out how IMPERFECT you are

and how badly you do NEED HELP.

And there HE is.

JESUS stands at the

DOOR of your

HEART,

knocking so hard

with HIS LOVE

to INVITE HIMSELF into your

IMPERFECTED~NESS,

so that HE becomes what you really

NEED

in order to continue to walk through this life

beyond your IMPERFECT self.

Because when you admit

that you are IMPERFECT

to the PERFECT ONE,

HE wraps HIS ROBE of RIGHTEOUSNESS around you

that fits you PERFECTLY

as HE looks into your eyes and says,

YOU ARE ALL MINE

&

I LOVE YOU

&

LET'S DO LIFE TOGETHER.

So to those who are

constantly telling me that

I NEED HELP,

thank you for caring for me so much.

As I know I NEED HELP.

And I found THE HELP that

I always NEEDED.

For on that one day,

when I fell on my knees

INVITING JESUS into my LIFE,

HE became more than just a HELPER,

for HE is my LIFE,

Because

"I know the only reason

I can stand here unashamed, Is not because I'm worthy. It's all because of mercy. There's no way that I could earn it. Praise GOD my debt is paid. It's not because I'm worthy It’s

ALL BECAUSE OF MERCY"

(listen to the song "ALL BECAUSE OF MERCY" below)


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