Within our current Admisistration in Washington, disasterous choices have been piling up like cordwood, and the response from the President down has been denial of any complicity or even knowledge of the actions. It has been jokingly said that "This Admisistration denies any knowledge of anything that this Admisistration has been doing."
Why are they so insistent on denying any wrongdoing or poor choices? Because they, like us, don't want to admit failure or complicity. Being human, they don't want to appear weak or incompetent or at fault. Funny, however, they don't seem to mind being seen as ignorant: "I didn't know anything about what was going on until I heard it on the news." Really? Amazingly ignorant of what is going on right around you.
Nonetheless, the desire, which you and I tend to share, is to be seen as not having made mistakes or bad choices - being faultless or perfect, in other words. They say, as do we, "Nobody's perfect." But, like us, they are loathe to actually admit specific flaws or faults as they occur. Remember the last time you fell down? Jumped right up as if it never happened. "Who took the last cup of coffee and didn't start another pot?" Nobody in the office, apparently.
It's funny how we act as if perfection is expected or even possible. We know that we do make bad choices and mistakes and fail. The Bible is clear that "There is no one perfect, not even one" (Rom 3:10). Yet, we just don't want to own up to our failures and flaws.
In so doing we miss the truth that perfection is not really what others, even and especially God, are wanting from us. Rather, perseverence is the trait desired: 'Watch your life and doctrine closely. Persevere in them, because if you do, you will save both yourself and your hearers" (1 Tim 4:16).
It is not the perfect walk, it is the perseverence in our walk, despite our failures and faults that God desires and others admire. It is foolish to try to appear faultless but wise to persevere despite our flaws. Jus' Sayn.
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