amaka's corner

Won’t you take this cup from me
Cause fear has stolen all my sleep 
If tomorrow means my death
I pray you’ll save their souls with it

Let the songs I sing
Bring joy to you
Let the words I say profess my love
Let the notes I choose
Be your favorite tune
Father let my heart be after you

In this hour of doubt I see
But who I am is not just me
So give me strength to die myself
So love can live to tell the tale

Let the songs I sing
Bring joy to you
Let the words I say profess my love
Let the notes I choose
Be your favorite tune
Father let my heart be after you

Father let my heart be…
For you

Let the songs I sing
Bring joy to you
Let the words I say profess my love
Let the notes I choose
Be your favorite tune
Father let my heart be after you

NEEDTOBREATHE, “Garden”

failing to be perfect

I decided awhile ago that I’d keep my personal life off the internet and just use this blog to glorify God, but I have to admit I struggle terribly with perfectionism. It’s always been a weakness of mine, and I’m part of a culture that exalts it. It’s a daily struggle I can’t ignore anymore. This comment from a guy named Paul on the blog linked below softened my heart and reminded me that I’m not alone in my struggles, and in everything because of Jesus, there is hope, and most of all, there is grace.

Perfectionism is pride – it is satanic in origin. It says: ‘I know I have a problem, but I won’t admit it, and I don’t want anyone near me. If I am left alone long enough, I will be okay – the problem, somehow, will evaporate.’ Now I know the one thing I need to know for my answer: Christ Jesus, my LIFE by faith. Now I am depending on the finished work of the cross, and now know, and believe, that the Blood of Jesus is All-Suffient for me, that I am loved and accepted, just as I am, that I can never do anything to attract God to me, nor commit too huge a sin as to lose my relationship with my Father through Jesus Christ. I am laying down, one by one, every burden I have carried, and asking the Holy Spirit to show me for who I really am, my heart, the self-centeredness and to help me walk with the Lord.

— from a guy named Paul on this blog. http://ceruleansanctum.com/2006/02/when-believers-stumble-perfectionism.html

Again I saw that under the sun the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, nor bread to the wise, nor riches to the intelligent, nor favor to those with knowledge, but time and chance happen to them all.
—Ecclesiastes 9:11 ESV

…and are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, whom God put forward as a propitiation by his blood, to be received by faith. This was to show God’s righteousness, because in his divine forbearance he had passed over former sins. It was to show his righteousness at the present time, so that he might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus. Then what becomes of our boasting? It is excluded. By what kind of law? By a law of works? No, but by the law of faith.
—Romans 3:24-27 ESV