MESSING UP!
I mess up. For me, I mess up too often. I am not a perfectionist, per se, but I get so frustrated when I mess up. Whether I mess up in a sermon, in relationships with others, it doesn't matter. MESSING UP bothers me. I lose sleep over it, especially when it applies to PEOPLE I care about. I always want to give my best and when I give second best, my competitive, coaching instincts say, "YOU CAN DO BETTER THAN THAT!" God made me this way. I don't think it is sinful to be hard on yourself. Yet, I have told two people in the last week that they NEED to give themselves a LITTLE GRACE! I need to take my own advice. It reminds me of the OLD TESTAMENT way of giving sacrifice. God used this system of sacrificing animals as a stop-gap, or a foreshadowing what Jesus would do for us. AND in the midst of the Old Testament, people started giving sacrifices just because! They did not have a purpose, they were not meaningful to the GIVER and God says they weren't that...
