Progress Means Improvement, Not Perfection

My response to a child of God who’s seeing progress in her life but still not meeting her own expectations:

Oh, precious one, you think so much like I do! I’m glad you are reminding yourself to look at your
growth; how far you’ve come is always a better point to examine than how far you have to go.

Remember, our goal is to become more like Jesus, but it’s lunacy to think we’ll ever arrive at any approximation of His perfection.

Just stay the course, sweetheart. Keep striving to do each next right thing, and if you’re going to compare your growth in the Lord to your lack thereof, why not recall how far the east is from the west, as Psalm 103 suggests? Verse 12 tells us that’s the distance He put between us and our sins at the cross.

Pretty comforting, isn’t it?

I’m praying for you right now, sweet girl. The catch phrase these days is “You’ve got this!” My take on that is, no, I haven’t “got this”, and truthfully I never will.

But how wonderfully relieving that our Lord “got” all of it at the cross, and He’s giving away forgiveness FOR FREE!

What a Savior.