Perfected by the Perfectionist

Theres a nifty song that goes like this,

"‘Cause I got a couple dents in my fender
Got a couple rips in my jeans
Try to fit the pieces together
But perfection is my enemy
On my own I'm so clumsy
But on Your shoulders I can see
I'm free to be me"

It adequated my life perfectly these past few days. On Saturday my church took a excursion to an apple picking field, and I thought It would be boring because I never picked an apple from a tree before. Surprisingly, It turned out to be quite fun; with loving and fun people around of course. We managed to pick quite a few bags filled to the rim, stuffing apples in t-shirts and down pockets made It seem like we were being a group of sinful churchgoers, but we got away with It. While driving home, and sitting in the back left corner of the van, I had nothing to do but listen to my Ipod. I turned It on and that song was the first that popped up. Listening to It blatant, I turned my eyes to the sky, noticing the array of light beaming down through the clouds asundering into the water. My mind was overwhelmed as I stood in awe thinking about my Father who formulated the sky, and the waters and the earth with only the sound of his voice. Tears ran down, as I tried to hide my face from the kids next to me. I didn't want to be Interrupted at all. Being in his presence was worth It all, and nobody at that time could acquire my attention.

My mind started to contemplate all the evil, sinful, and unholy things I had done. The Holy Spirit was reminding me. How could I be in the presence of a Holy God when sin is not his nature at all? I started to weep, in a moment of despair I heard the voice of God wisper something in my ear. " You are perfect the way I created you, Do not try to be perfect, For I the Lord perfects all things".... OMG ! My eyes felt like a running faucet, literally. I couldnt grasp the goodness of the Lord that day, and I said to him, Lord what can i do for you ? I'm not worthy at all to deserve any sort of goodness.

Why does the Lord do so much good for us while we don't deserve it?
Why would the Lord give his mercy to us when we do nothing but fail him?
Why does he pour his unfailing love upon us when our love always fails ?
Why?

You see, theres not much we can do for him. In fact theres nothing we can do to be as perfect as him, Nothing. The lord only wants us. That's It. We can do nothing for him, but give our all.
The big question is, What will he do for us ? And the answer is Everything.. We cannot survive without him. He gives us the air, he opens our eyes, and he provides our every desire. What more can we do but give up our-self to him?

We cannot be perfect, because he alone is the perfect one. We all have rips in our life, we all have dents, but we cannot try to fix them ourself. We are all like apples, some are sweet and some are sour, some are dry, some are small, some big, and some are imperfect. Let the perfectionist, Jesus Christ fix us. When Were on his shoulders, we are free to be the ones he created us to be.