tigger398 Posted March 22, 2009 Group: Diamond Member Followers: 6 Topic Count: 562 Topics Per Day: 0.08 Content Count: 2,074 Content Per Day: 0.31 Reputation: 648 Days Won: 2 Joined: 11/01/2005 Status: Offline Birthday: 05/31/1966 Share Posted March 22, 2009 How can you be perfect, and what if people expects you to be perfect and wants perfection or gets mad if your not perfect Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pamiam Posted March 22, 2009 Group: Advanced Member Followers: 0 Topic Count: 3 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 188 Content Per Day: 0.03 Reputation: 3 Days Won: 0 Joined: 12/29/2007 Status: Offline Share Posted March 22, 2009 Not sure I entirely understand the question, but in my world, perfection is highly overrated. If you aim for perfection, you're bound to be frustrated and you also train others to expect those impossible standards from you as "normal." Hmmmm, what's wrong with this picture. Rick Warren says Saddleback aims for God's workers to be just "good enough," not perfect. If we wait to be perfect, we'll be waiting forever to serve. We aim for the Biblical perfection, another word for completion, but we do so within awareness that we are aiming and not always achieving. Moral of the story is to be gentle with ourselves and others as we move on up the completion ladder. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
riel Posted March 22, 2009 Group: Advanced Member Followers: 0 Topic Count: 5 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 179 Content Per Day: 0.03 Reputation: 9 Days Won: 0 Joined: 01/06/2009 Status: Offline Share Posted March 22, 2009 (edited) How can you be perfect, and what if people expects you to be perfect and wants perfection or gets mad if your not perfect I believe that walking in the spirit is the only time that we are perfect. I'd rather use the words "matured" or "completed." The times that we're not walking in the spirit, we're walking in our flesh. People don't understand this, and we're not hearing it preached or preached to the degree that it's going to cause us to possibly take notice. We have to allow the "full gospel" to penetrate our lives for us to become a mature or complete believer. The choices we make every day reveals to others whom we're serving--either ourselves and the devil or our Father. The Scriptures teach that Christianity is a walk of OBEDIENCE. If we walk in obedience, we'll attain the prize when we leave this life. Edited March 22, 2009 by riel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest LadyC Posted March 22, 2009 Share Posted March 22, 2009 as long as we draw breath, we will NEVER be perfect. God says there is none perfect, no not one.... not even the most spiritually mature person is perfect. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rest is a weapon Posted March 22, 2009 Group: Advanced Member Followers: 2 Topic Count: 8 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 125 Content Per Day: 0.02 Reputation: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 08/01/2007 Status: Offline Birthday: 11/20/1956 Share Posted March 22, 2009 Hey Tigger, you've heard that expression "in Christ" right? Well when you became a Christian, Father God put you into the one place that made you perfect already. He put you into Christ. That is how God sees you (perfect). Now we continue to struggle through this life making mistakes asking God to forgive us and making them again. All the while Jesus is in us and us in him. It's an extraordinary miracle of relationship that, when Jesus first laid down his Godhood and became a man, we got to see. Various places in the bible Jesus speaks of his Father being in him and he in the Father. ie. John 8:29 And He who sent Me is with Me. The Father has not left me alone,... The miracle is now we have that same position. Jesus is in us just as his Father had been in him. Your search for perfection is misguided because it has already been attained. I say misguided because who are you trying to be perfect before? It must be before men and women on earth. Because your perfection before God is established. Hope that isn't too confusing. God bless. Don Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deepblue Posted March 22, 2009 Group: Advanced Member Followers: 2 Topic Count: 34 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 365 Content Per Day: 0.06 Reputation: 1 Days Won: 0 Joined: 10/27/2006 Status: Offline Birthday: 10/03/1989 Share Posted March 22, 2009 How can you be perfect, and what if people expects you to be perfect and wants perfection or gets mad if your not perfect They have no right being angry at someone for not being perfect, because they certainly aren't perfect themselves. Maybe this question means that you are wondering how we can meet some people's standards and expectations to be accepted by them? Most importantly make sure that pleasing God, not man is your number 1 priority. And if people have some kind of problem with you, just ignore it and continue serving God. (Oh and hello Tigger. Haven't seen you in a while ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Believer1997 Posted March 22, 2009 Group: Royal Member Followers: 1 Topic Count: 66 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 6,363 Content Per Day: 1.12 Reputation: 119 Days Won: 9 Joined: 11/07/2008 Status: Offline Share Posted March 22, 2009 How can you be perfect, and what if people expects you to be perfect and wants perfection or gets mad if your not perfect They have no right being angry at someone for not being perfect, because they certainly aren't perfect themselves. Maybe this question means that you are wondering how we can meet some people's standards and expectations to be accepted by them? Most importantly make sure that pleasing God, not man is your number 1 priority. And if people have some kind of problem with you, just ignore it and continue serving God. (Oh and hello Tigger. Haven't seen you in a while ) All have sinned and fallen short of the Glory of God. NOBODY, NOWHERE, is perfect - nor does anyone have any right to insist that you meet an impossible standard of 'being perfect'. People who insist upon perfection are, in my opinion, so flawed themselves, that they demand this of others to build their own sagging self esteem. As far as 'getting mad' when you are not perfect - that is NOT Christian behaviour. I do not know who is placing these impossible demands on you - or anyone else, but it's abusive and unfair. IMO... God Bless you Tigger... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kat8585 Posted March 22, 2009 Group: Royal Member Followers: 3 Topic Count: 1,360 Topics Per Day: 0.21 Content Count: 7,866 Content Per Day: 1.23 Reputation: 26 Days Won: 0 Joined: 11/22/2006 Status: Offline Birthday: 04/18/1946 Share Posted March 22, 2009 How can you be perfect, and what if people expects you to be perfect and wants perfection or gets mad if your not perfect Too bad, so sad. Are they perfect? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hunterpoet Posted March 23, 2009 Group: Removed from Forums for Breaking Terms of Service Followers: 0 Topic Count: 128 Topics Per Day: 0.02 Content Count: 2,704 Content Per Day: 0.44 Reputation: 25 Days Won: 1 Joined: 05/29/2007 Status: Offline Birthday: 10/08/1950 Share Posted March 23, 2009 Only God is perfect Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JCISGD Posted March 23, 2009 Group: Diamond Member Followers: 0 Topic Count: 64 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 1,345 Content Per Day: 0.24 Reputation: 30 Days Won: 1 Joined: 03/05/2009 Status: Offline Birthday: 04/10/1961 Share Posted March 23, 2009 I had a perfect day today, everything went well. This not to say it could not have been improved upon. While we are not to be subject to unreasonable expextations of others, we are commanded to love God and our neighbour according to our opportunity and ability. This is being "Perfect as our Father in heaven is Perfect". It is not unreasonable and we are able to do what we can. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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