For all of us who are done with looking like we have it all together, I recently read an amazing blog post by Andrew Peterson. Read entire post here Below is the last paragraph, which sums up the post for me.
Jesus is making us into something. C. S. Lewis wrote that God is
making us into “little Christs.” We all ache for the day when we’ll be
free of our sins, our bad habits, our bitterness, the things about us
that we think ugly or undesirable. But perhaps the road of
sanctification will be an easier one when we recognize in ourselves the
sin of self-consciousness, the sin of reputation management, the sin of
lying to ourselves. To live our lives with a pretense of
self-sufficiency, strength, and have-it-togetherness is to diminish the
visible work of God’s grace. One of your greatest blessings to the
community around you may be your utter brokenness, it may be something
about yourself that you loathe, but which Christ will use for his glory.
When Jesus is Lord of our brokenness we are free to rejoice in the
mighty work he has yet to do in us. We are free to enter the stage in
the face of the devil’s accusation, “You’re not good enough.”
The Christian’s answer: “Exactly!”
And we dance.

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