Your Morning Coffee 11/03/2025

Good morning!

Welcome to your morning coffee! May our Heavenly Father help us to see the impossibility of perfection. Father, you call us to be perfect, as you are perfect. Only Jesus, your son and our savior, can help us to be perfect. See us, Father, through the perfection of Jesus. May our imperfect living be covered by Jesus. May we not lie to ourselves and think we can do it on our own. We can't. May we not lie to ourselves and say it doesn't matter, because we can't do it. With Jesus we can. Father, in the name of Jesus, by the Spirit, help us to rest in and trust in how you've set this up to work. Help us to do our best and trust you with the rest! Amen.

Your Morning Song: "Nothing But the Blood" by Reawaken Hymns

Your Morning Scripture: 1 Peter 2:5

...you also, like living stones,

are being built into a spiritual house

to be a holy priesthood,

offering spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God

through Jesus Christ.

...

We've talked before about what the first part of this verse means, that we are the church, not the building we meet in. And Holy Spirit dwells in us, not in our buildings. And this all so that we, the Church, might reach out to the unbelieving world and call out salvation from sin through Jesus.

But what about that last part? It is easily passed over. What does it mean?

Instead of the animal sacrifices of the Old Testament, the Church now offers spiritual sacrifices. Slaying sin of all kinds and instead embracing Godly attitudes, Godly behaviors, Godly living, for God's purposes.

But it doesn't work. There's no good thing that we can do that is good enough for God. His standard is perfection.

It is impossible. We can't do it.

Unless...

Jesus.

Our worship and obedience are accepted by God because of who Jesus is and what He has done and continues to do for us. Who we are and what we have done cannot be good enough.

Some of us need to stop trying to be perfect. It doesn't work. The lie that we can be perfect by ourselves is arrogant. And goes hand in hand with judging others for their failure to be perfect. Legalism is the human result of Satan's goal to make those created in God's image, into his own image. The Accuser makes more accusers.

Some of us need to stop using the impossibility of perfection as an excuse not to try harder in obedience. Jesus is our perfection and so any good thing we do, however imperfect, is pleasing and acceptable to God. Because of Jesus.

So not trying our best, while Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are certainly doing theirs, is dishonest and acceptable to Satan. But certainly not God.

Jesus is our perfection. Our best, whatever that sincerely, honestly is, is acceptable to our Heavenly Father. We can trust in this framework. This is the way it works in God's family.

We are covered in the perfection of Jesus. We try our best. We trust and rest in the one who accepts our right attitudes and right efforts. And run to Him in repentance when we fall short. Which we all will.

But we should never think that our imperfection puts us at risk of being kicked out of the family. That is absurd.

May we be known as a people

of daily confidence

in the love of their Heavenly Father.