Today, I was asked to do a devotional with the creative team at New Hope. I decided to talk about imperfection and how it is actually not a bad thing, but a wholesome and good thing.
We read from Romans 7:7 and specifically this section,
“But I can hear you say, “If the law code was as bad as all that, it’s no better than sin itself.” That’s certainly not true. The law code had a perfectly legitimate function.”
In church, we sometimes give off an air of perfection, a mask of security to hide how scared and imperfect we actually are. We defeat God’s purpose of true community by hiding our imperfections. The easiest way i can explain this is: We walk around life in our skin, and if we get cut, we bleed. Bleeding is the imperfect, not bleeding is the perfect. Now I don’t know anyone who likes to get cut but it is in this imperfect state that we see we are human. We come face to face with how we are made.
It is so important that we are consistently reminded of our humanity so as to not grow confident in our own skin, but fall into the hands that made us.
My advice to us all is to “live in the tension” of exposing who we really are at the risk of being rejected. At that point it is not for the onlookers that you are displaying that you are imperfect, but for yourself.
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