So today someone called me perfect. And I honestly did not know how to respond.
I was at work and a coworker/fellow waver came up and started talking to me. He is very outgoing and talkative and so it was a nice conversation. Then out of nowhere, the conversation made a jump.
Adam: “I’m sorry for all my cursing. It is just how I talk. I can’t really help it.”
Jamie: “It’s okay. I actually have learned to block it all out anyway”
Then there were a couple of moments of silence and he was staring at me.
Adam: “You are perfect, aren’t you?”
How am I to respond to this? I am sure I was taken aback and it took me a couple of seconds.
Jamie: “What do you mean? I’m nowhere near perfect.”
Adam: “You don’t curse, you don’t get drunk, and you don’t do anything bad.”
Jamie: “Oh. Well I’m not perfect, that’s for sure.”
Then the conversation kind of died after that. I probably killed it being so stunned.
But is this how our culture and my generation see Christians???
Instead of seeing us as…
real people,
who fail,
fall short,
make mistakes,
have regrets
and sin
…they see us as perfect people!! Isn’t there something wrong with this picture?
Me– Perfect?? I have never been perfect and never will be. No one in the history of mankind or in our future has or will be perfect. It’s a fact of life. But it’s not the fact that we are all imperfect human beings. It’s the fact that Jesus redeems us. Even though I am a sinner, and deserve the worst, through Christ I am saved. By his grace I am given a second and a third and a fourth chance if needed. Because of God sending his Son to die on the cross for me, I am able to have eternal life. To be picked up when I fall and to be cleansed when I sin.
I don’t want people to see me, or other Christians as perfect. I’m not perfect. I have downfalls. I sin daily. But what sets Christians apart is not our ‘perfectness’….
It’s our imperfectness and our HOPE in Jesus Christ.
