In his book Open, Andre Agassi wrote about the time he struggled the most on the tennis court. Trying to be perfect, he realized he was making more mistakes. It was not until he finally let go of trying to be perfect and instead concentrated on being good, that he found his greatest success.
Cleanthes, the Greek philosopher and second head the school of Stoicism, said that all human being have the starting points of virtue. This inclination towards virtue is not about living a perfect life. It is about the desire the do the right thing. [Something, we have all had at least one point in our lives.]
Mistakes and failures happen to all of us. It is a normal part of life because none of us are perfect. What we cannot do is let those setbacks keep us down. Instead, we need to learn from them. We need to use them to our advantage to make us more capable people. We need to use them so that we become good.
And now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good. -John Steinbeck.
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Doesn’t God require perfection though? Didn’t Paul state that the heart is deceptively wicked and that we are dead in our sin? Didn’t the Psalmist say that none seek good and we have all gone astray???
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God does require perfection but can we who are incapable of perfection meet that requirement. Good thing we have a Mediator that can redeem us from our imperfections.
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