Perfection?

This week I had a few great discussions with some of my co-workers about the idea of becoming perfected. I felt it was only appropriate to attach the picture above since I sometimes feel like the woman at the Saviors feet. Some days I feel completely overwhelmed with my inadequacies and feel as if I am not worthy of receiving our Heavenly Fathers blessings.

During my discussions with my co-workers we all started talking about our weaknesses and the different struggles that we face when it comes to spiritual things. It was interesting to me that none of us struggled with the same thing. Each one of us had our own struggles and our own weaknesses when it came to our spirituality. The thought came to me while we were talking that although all of us struggled with different things and felt exactly like this woman did in this picture, each one of our struggles are equally as important to the Saviour and our Heavenly Father.

As I brought this idea into the discussion another thought came up. A scripture found in the New Testament, "Be ye therefore perfect". When I took a second to think about this phrase it immediately became overwhelming for me. To think of all of the struggles we just spoke about and to see all of my weaknesses out on the table I was completely overwhelmed. As human beings how does God expect us to become perfect.

Later as I came home and searched the scriptures under the word perfection I found phrases like, "perfect in Christ Jesus", "perfect and complete in all the will of God", "being made perfect", "make you perfect in every good work" and the list goes on and on. I realized that the goal of this life is not to be perfect but through our experiences to become closer to perfection. We will never be able to obtain perfection in this life. We will always fall short. This is where the Savior Jesus Christ steps in. He makes up for our weaknesses. During those time when we feel inadequate he steps in to make up the difference.

As I studied this topic in the scriptures I came to the conclusion that our goal in life should be to become perfect at striving for perfection. What I mean by that is in everything we do we should be striving to get better. God recognizes that we have weaknesses and we make mistakes. He also recognizes when we realize those mistakes and don't take action to get better. The Savior Jesus Christ will ALWAYS make up the difference as long as we are continually striving to become better.

I am thankful for my co-workers for the great experiences they shared with me this week. I am glad they were able to help me to realize where I need to do better. Most importantly I am grateful for the Savior Jesus Christ and when he steps in to help make up for my weaknesses. To end my blog post for this week I ran across a scripture and video this week that I found fitting for this post. "Be perfect, be of good comfort, be of one mind, live in peace; and the God of love and peace shall be with you." -2 Corinthians 13:11.