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Previous Daily Devotional
About a perfect world…
Ecclesiastes 7:20 There is not a righteous man on earth
who does what is right and never sins. (NIV)
In this world there is both darkness and light. There is in
this world both sin and grace. There is a spiritual war going on for the souls of
millions…a war being waged within the heart of each person. The world is not perfect.
The world is horribly imperfect. Defective cells grow from defective DNA and these
defective cells can turn into the scourge of cancer. Defective upbringing in the life of a
child creates a life far short of perfection. Every item ever made by human hand's is in
some way defective or imperfect. We do not live in a perfect world. In our imperfect
world, there are those who wish to steal our property and goods. In our imperfect world,
there are those who wish to kill us and kill our loved ones. We must all face the grim
reality of death. For in a perfect world, there would be no death, no war, no trouble, no
sickness, no blotch or blemish of any kind anywhere. However, we are not totally helpless
and without resources in our world of imperfection. We are all children of God, fallen,
but redeemable. We are all held in the loving hand of God who wants us to see our
imperfections and then try to do something about them. Perhaps God's great measuring stick
for our life measures not what we achieve as a result of our doing great things, but what
we achieve by working to overcome our imperfections. In the grandest scale, Christ died on
the Cross to give us a chance to deal with our most imperfect and sinful heart. When we
look to Christ and surrender our all to Him in humble contrition we do at last begin to
achieve some perfection in the eyes of God.
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