Walking with Jesus. In the gospels how often is the word perfect used.
Twice. Love your enemy as God does. Be perfect like Him.
Walk blamelessly as to the law, follow Christ and give up wealth and you will be perfect.
And that is it. Yet strangely people feel to follow Christ is about perfection. According to Jesus perfection is loving your enemy, following Christ and not money. It is having love in your heart, and walking in this with others.
How is this legalism, or wrong or evil? It starts with what is in your heart, and as many have said, if love and looking to Christ are there, everything is fine. As your heart changes, as honesty and integrity become right so it shows in how you react and the things you do. What I hear is we should just expect sin, rather than sin is the exception.
Anyone crying for me to understand Christs love or acceptance, is like getting upset that I do not know the Lord.
The only thing that strikes me is you believe I have an unclean heart, and racked with sin and problems, but just deny it.
What stuns me so many times that things look totally gloom and wrong, yet when I trust the Lord it just sorts out.
So I stop worrying and just trust. He always provides, and I work hard doing that which is just before me.
What I have learnt is sin takes us and justifies our hurt and failure, while the Lord brings us love and acceptance, and just letting go, forgiving and walking in humbleness with the Lord sets us free. Once you see what drives the world, it does not matter because the Lord has set us free. How far have you gone trusting the Lord, how much is on the line, has love proved its way in your heart? The Lords love has changed me and all I do, its that simple. I walk in His grave everyday.