After abandoning facebook a number of months ago I realized that I had nowhere to blog. I want to start a new blog, perhaps with more purpose than my, often random, facebook notes. However, I've imported them here for the time being and back-dated them so they are all archived if you want to read them. Unfortunately I wasn't able to import the comments as they are sometimes the best part of the note.. but anyway.. that's ok.
I've named this blog Ashes of Imperfection. My inspiration comes from a bible passage often referred to as "the love passage" (I have written several blogs about it before). However, my focus goes to the second half of this passage which is perhaps less common. It goes like this:
"Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. For we know in part and we prophesy in part, but when perfection comes, the imperfect disappears. When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put childish ways behind me. Now we see but a poor reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known."
God is Love. Love is perfection. In striving to be more like God we should all be striving to love.. striving to be perfect.. This means allowing God to burn within us. Destroying the old. Perfecting the new. Leaving us with only ashes of imperfection.
This blog is my journey. I'd like to hear yours too.
Burning Down
By Phil Joel
I know what I’ve been told
And I know there’s flaws in my thinking
Threatening the things I hold
So tight
Still this is my only hope
This is the way to freedom
Cause You are not so concerned
with my justice You let go of Your rights
And You expect the same from me
To let the ones who wrong me go free
The burning down of me
This is the cross I see
No other way for me
The burning down of me
This is the grace we have known
The mercy we’re shown
The truth, the way
Where life begins again
No greater love can a man show
Than to lay down his life for another
Even if the other will never know
You’re challenging all that I think I deserve
Challenging the ways that I handle my hurt
Cause it’s You who shoulders the blame I’ll remember
The burning down of me
This is the cross I see
No other way for me
The burning down of me
This is the grace we have known
The mercy we’re shown
The truth, the way
Where life begins again
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