midweek meditations.

"The grace of God frees us from perfectionism: The other-focused obsession of what people think of me" 

-Pastor Britt Merrick

I've talked about my struggle with perfectionism in past posts, like this one here. 

But when our pastor, Britt Merrick, said this last weekend I again was reminded of how often I fool myself to think I can do something perfectly...

Britt went through the book of Galatians on Sundays this Summer, and that is when I really began to see that I was being suffocated by my desire to "give 100% to everything". I'm sure you've heard others say this, or perhaps you struggle to do the impossible yourself...

Althought I fully understand fractions and percentages

somehow I missed that It was impossible for me to give 100% of my 

energy, effort, and passion 

to EVERYTHING.

And, not to mention, I totally knew that by thinking I could be perfect (I would never have said that was what I was trying to do of course) I was radically misunderstanding who God is and what my identity is... 

He is God, 

He is Perfect, 

I am Kristen, 

his daughter, 

wretched and sinful 

BUT made perfect in Jesus.

"What is most stable and most true about you is that you are holy unto God (a saint), 

because of your faith in Christ (The Holy one of God)"

-Britt Merrick