In a scene
from the series, “Mad Men” Betty and Sally, its mother and daughter characters,
are fighting over the broken state of daughter’s “once perfect” nose.
It addresses the importance appearance and
perfection often play in life. At one point, daughter, Sally mocks her mother,
“Where would Mom be without her perfect nose?”
With
disordered image, eating and value issues plaguing our culture today, the
perfection challenge is still with us. There’s an expectation of happiness,
fulfilled dreams and banished sadness/loneliness which frequently comes
attached to the perfection promise.
But the rude
awakening to life is how imperfect it
is.
Still, God
has His perspective on not just perfection, but on His value of us as well:
“Thou shalt be perfect with the LORD thy God.”
Deuteronomy 18:13
“He is the Rock, his work is perfect:
for all his ways are judgment: a God of truth and without iniquity, just and
right is he.”
Deuteronomy 32:4
“As for God, his way is perfect; the
word of the LORD is tried: he is a buckler to all them that trust in him.”
2 Samuel 22:31; Psalms 18:31
“And be not conformed to this world:
but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is
that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.”
Romans 12:2
“And he said unto me, ‘My grace is sufficient
for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness.’ Most gladly therefore
will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon
me.”
2 Corinthians 12:9
We are in
process; we’re constantly changing…
“But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the
glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to
glory, just as by the Spirit of the Lord.”
2 Corinthians 3:18
It’s a
message which needs much repeating, especially if we’re recovering from not
just eating disorders and low self-esteem, but unrealistic perfectionism to
boot.
We’re
getting there. You are; I am. And, in the middle of everything which is
imperfect, God still sees a perfection to us. We are that valuable. Period.
Copyright © 2015 by Sheryle Cruse
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