Mission Trip Impossible: Dumb Excuse #1-Flaws
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Excuse #1: “I’m afraid I might miss out on my monthly auto-shipment of Proactive.”
Translation: “I have flaws. Therefore, I’m afraid I wouldn’t be considered perfect enough to become an ambassador for Christ.”
So what’s your excuse? Instead of acne, yours might be, “I’m too short,” “I’m too fat,” “I’m too old,” “I’m too young,” or “I just don’t fit in.”
Most of us can relate to having feelings of inadequacy about certain real or perceived flaws and imperfections which we see in ourselves. So whether it’s the battle of the bulge or our battle is with blemishes, we’re all essentially fighting the same battle. If we allow ourselves to give in to an inferiority complex we begin to believe the lie that we aren’t meant to be Christ’s ambassadors.
However, Isaiah 53:2-3 tells us, “He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to him, nothing in his appearance that we should desire him. He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows, and familiar with suffering. Like one from whom men hide their faces he was despised, and we esteemed him not.” (NIV)
Yet in verse 5 it says, “But he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities: the punishment that brought us peace was upon him, and by his wounds we are healed.” (NIV)
The truth is that even Jesus didn’t look the part of an ambassador, and certainly not a Savior! If God didn’t expect Jesus to look perfect, then he doesn’t expect us to appear perfect either. Hence we have just exposed excuse #1 as an untruth which means it no longer has any control over our lives.
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