PERFECT - That's not me.

There are many people out there looking for the perfect everything and anything. They want the perfect car, the perfect house, the perfect mate. There are many more perfect things we are looking for but I need to burst your bubble. There are none. Yup, not one. Henry Leland was one of many men who tried to make a perfect car. That's him in the picture. He did it twice with Cadillac and then with the Lincoln. He was determined not to ship one car unless it was perfect. Not one was shipped and Edsel Ford came along and saved the company producing many near perfect automobiles, but never a perfect one. You might think you have found a perfect whatever, that is until another one will show up and you will realize the one you have isn’t so perfect after all.

Isn’t it interesting that the most over used word in our vocabulary right now seems to be the word ‘perfect’. Case in point, go into any restaurant and order you entrée and the waitress will say, ‘perfect’. I ordered a very healthy chicken noodle soup just the other day and she said, ‘perfect’. Well, no it’s not because if it was something resembling perfect, to me it would have been a two foot long rack of ribs. With that, is perfect subjective? I would say, yes it is.

I also know some people who have dropped at the churches I have pastored. They came  for a couple of weeks and then disappear just as quickly as they arrived. They are on a search for a perfect church. Warning, if you are one of those individuals who is looking for a perfect church, don’t come to try us out. Our church is not perfect because it’s filled with soul sick people looking for healing.  

A lady once asked D. L. Moody where she could find a perfect church. He said he didn't know. Then said; “When you find one, don’t join it because then it won’t be perfect anymore. This is what I know: there are only two perfect things in this world, First, God is perfect. And if He is the only one, God in Three, then, I will be in an un-perfect church every Sunday searching to find something about my perfect God to add to who I am. And that brings us to the second item. Christ is the one and only perfect sacrifice that takes my sins away. One more warning this week, perfection is a life long journey that will only find fulfillment when we step through the gates of heaven. Let’s journey together.

Something to think about

Rob

Did You Hear That?

If God asked you to do something, would you? At church we talked a little about the Apostle Paul who heard the resurrected voice of Jesus. It changed him. I’m surmising that not too many of us here today have heard His audible voice lately. But, let’s say you heard Him ask you to do something, would you?

Too many times in the bible, God does ask and people find ways of getting out of it. Moses said, “I’m not a good speaker.” I believe very strongly that when God asks, it’s because He knows all about us and knows that it is in our abilities and power to get it done. Listen to this, He would never ask us to do something we can’t do! No excuses allowed. No saying to God, “There has to be someone who is better at this then me.” If I had said that way back in 1968, I would have stayed at Dofasco my whole life and played with machinery.

Do I think I am good at what I do? Not really, but I do the best I can at what I’ve got and leave the rest to Him. How about you? My bible tells me God has given us a gift and He has also given us gifts. The gift is the one thing He has called us to do in life with His presence. Back to Moses, God called him to lead the sheep. Just so you know the rest of the story, it took Moses 40 years to learn how to lead sheep. The gifts are all those things that make us who we are and into the person in life that we become in God’s presence. It is a person that grows daily in becoming more and more like Jesus.

When you find both or these, you have arrived at knowing why He put you where you are. In all cases, both the gift and the gifts are there to help us help each other. I think the church has forgotten that along the way. We were too busy reading the book while neglecting to let the book live out in our hearts and life.

The calling of God can be summed up in the following: If we follow what He asks us to do, the world will know we are Christians by our love. By the way, if you have not heard His voice lately, you probably haven’t opened you bible lately.

Something to think about.

Rob