God’s heart on perfectionism

“I can stop comparing myself to others because God designed me to be a unique, one-of-a-kind person” Psalm 139:14

Are you one who presumes that you must perform perfectly in order to gain and keep God’s love? Do you hold back and not take any risks because you are afraid of failure? These are just a couple of issues for people with perfectionist tendencies.

Perfectionism is a nasty stronghold, an unhealthy, compulsive pattern of thinking that demands perfection in any undertaking. Freedom begins as we meditate on God’s word which is able to make us free.

Our Lord and Friend says in Matthew 11:28 “Come to Me all you who are weary and burdened and I will give you rest.”

“God does not expect me to become Christlike in my own power, because God assumes responsibility for bringing me to maturity”. Philippians 1:6

Performance-based perfectionism believes that our acceptance by God and others is only achieved by how perfectly we perform. However the Scriptures tell us that ‘we are accepted in the Beloved’, in Christ.

Philippians 2:13 ‘not in your own strength, for it is it God, who is all the while effectively at work in you, energizing and creating in you the power and desire, both to will and to work for His good pleasure, and satisfaction and delight.” AMP

Let’s cease from striving. Rest in Him. Learn the unforced rhythms of grace.

Shalom Kath

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