Perfection

“As for God, his way is perfect: The LORD’s word is flawless; he shields all who take refuge in him.” Psalm 18:30

Have you ever just read something, just one verse of the bible, and then stopped to let it sink in or to really think about what you have just read. Well, that's what I've done tonight. I read this verse and the words "perfect" and "flawless" stood out to me. Seriously, it is extremely difficult to be perfect or to do something perfectly. How often do we see gymnasts or divers get perfect scores? Not very often, because perfection is not easy. But... this verse says that God's way is perfect. 

I had an experience today with trying to make things perfect. We moved house yesterday so today was "clean up" day for our previous house. Now for anyone who has moved from one rental to another, you are probably aware of the inspections and how they need everything to be cleaned to a certain point that really isn't far from perfection. And if it's not good enough, they will make you go back and do it again. Well, my main job today, was to clean and wash out all the kitchen cupboards, and there were LOTS of them. So, for a number of hours today, I sat with cleaning product, cloths and water scrubbing away at shelves trying to make them perfectly spotless and clean. I came to realise, it didn't matter how much gumption I used on these shelves or how much scrubbing I did, some shelves just weren't going to come up spotless. I'm not sure how they looked originally as I did not move in at the same time as my housemate, so I don't know what marks were on them previously but for a while, I was determined to get them perfectly clean. Eventually, after realising that perfection was not going to come, I went for the best I could do.

So of course it makes sense that when I read the Psalm 18:30 that the words "perfect" and "flawless" stood out to me. But what does cleaning shelves have to do with God. Well, not a lot for me today really. It was just my connection to realising how difficult perfection was. 

Basically, it's made me really think about the fact that we on our own can not achieve perfection. Perfection is difficult. However, God knows which ways are perfect, so if we follow His ways, we are heading towards perfection, but as soon as we take a step away from His ways we lose it. I'm not sure that what I wanted to say is really coming out, I'm having a hard time wording my thoughts, but hopefully you get what I mean. Our ways = flawed. Gods ways = perfection!

Thankful for: Simplicity

There are some very simple things in life and some very difficult. We can't go along in life thinking that things will never be difficult, and we can't think that things will always be simple. Today, I'm just thankful that there are some things in life that are simply, simple!