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You are never going to be good enough for yourself when [
your] idea of perfection is completely wrong.
-Don Miguel Ruiz I’m reading this little book called The Mastery of Love. It sounds like a book
on how to pick up girls, but it’s actually for my Marriage and Family class,
which I really enjoy... sociology.
Anyhow, this line made me ponder once again on what perfection is, how I
have perceived it in the past (and often now), and how I feel God is reshaping
the way I perceive it currently.
His idea for our perfection is better than we think, and His standards for how
we arrive there, to me at this point, is even better. In scripture it mentions,
"Be perfect as Jesus is perfect"; however, the literal translation for perfect
actually means whole (or complete). So be whole
as Jesus is whole. To “be perfect as Jesus is perfect” usually co
notates us trying really hard to become something that we are not; it means
making an endless list of resolutions, exerting efforts to be our best and
sucking up our worst; all this to somehow achieve becoming “Jesus like” at the
end. There is truth behind some of
these ideas, which I’ll get into in later time; but honestly, to me becoming
perfect like Jesus sounds really tiring.
And if I we’re to ever arrive at that level of perfection, it would
probably be short lived.
It sounds like we’re set up for failure; but we all know God
never sets us up to fail, no matter how things appear. Instead, God wants us to have wholeness, a
sense of completeness in our beings.
When I think of wholeness, I think of the analogy David uses in the
psalm, how he is like “a weaned baby” which describes the state of his
soul. A weaned baby is an infant who
has just been breastfed with milk to the brim. It’s the highest state of that
baby’s contentment. Full of warm milk, his body is soft and relaxed, … it
sounds really comfortable. In the arms of the parent, the baby’s without a care
in the world…I like that. It is such an awesome portrayal of what wholeness
means and what God wants for us. Anyways, God does not want us to strive for his favor nor strive for all the other good stuff he wants shower us with. He wants us to rest in it
like a child…like an infant... cause he already thinks highly of you, more than
you think, and more than you can ever possibly imagine.
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| "Did you know that when you were forgiven, God rewrote your history? To revisit any event from your past apart from the blood of Jesus is to voluntarily subject yourself to the spirit of deception; because you are revisiting something that no longer exists." - Bill Johnson
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| ohh man,one mroe week left and I can dive my nose into more pastel covered books such as this... To Touch Is To Live... It's amazing what touch can do, or the lack of it. When you surround an infant with large amounts of healthy touch, growth is stimulated, not just in the body, but the brain, the nerves, appetite, everything. Those babies that are neglected of healthy touch are more prone to disease than those without it. I remember reading in this transactional analysis book that from severe lack of touch, a certain part of the nervous chord shrivels and can even die from lack of stimulation. I also remember in the orphanages in Mozambique, I heard stories of AIDS babies becoming completely healed simply from being constantly held over time.
Anyways this book tackles issues of affection in our culture... barriers that prevent healthy affection from occurring as often as it should. It needs to happen more often, for infants, the kiddies, teenagers, and adults. Without it, we're more prone to depression, the feelings of loneliness, sickness and disease, etc. The problem is sometimes our culture is too caught up in maintaining composure. Again, we're just too damn caught up in trying to maintain our composure... composure... This one psychologist/pastor mentioned that he would have these patients, middle aged men, successful business types... during counseling sessions they would break down into tears and say to him "all I want is for someone to hold me"....powerful stuff man...
Well, back to studying my feminist books -and getting femininducated
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| All I have are black socks now, somehow I misplaced all the white ones. The benefit of having black socks is that when they're dirty, you can't tell. The trouble with black socks is that when they are dirty, you can't tell.
What I got from BJ:
Whatever you boast in, that's what you feed on. Whatever you feed on, that's what you will reproduce. Boast in temporal things, you reproduce the temporal. Boast in the eternal - blah lab wab habba bah!
much love give a hug
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My notes from Bill Johnson (Part I):
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If you focus on and do only what is possible in your Christian life, you will be bored of your Christian life.
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(As heirs of God) We have access to the answers to all the problems and dilemmas, on earth.
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Ignorance leads us to pray for what we already have – that’s why we get bored. It doesn’t just fuel the enemies work but it keeps us from promise land living.
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All authority on heaven and earth has been given to me. Jesus said that as our older brother not God. Nobody gave God authority.
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Faith is not something strived for. Faith is yielding and surrendering to Him.
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Unbelief is the ultimate sin. Depression and discouragement comes in from yielding to lies. | | |
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