How to be a Failure - Part 6: Demand for Perfection

Another sure path to failure and frustration is the demand for perfection from everyone around us a demand rooted in man’s fallen longing for paradise without obedience to God. Those who insist on perfect children, perfect spouses, or perfect circumstances are invariably the most unhappy people of all, because they look for peace in others while remaining blind to their own faults. Their hunger is not for God’s holiness but for a world perfectly arranged to satisfy their own wishes, and this leads only to bitterness, disappointment, and broken relationships. The Christian, by contrast, does not look for happiness in a flawless world or flawless people but rests in a perfect God, whose faithfulness never wavers and whose providence never fails. Knowing that perfection belongs to God alone, the believer finds peace not in controlling others but in trusting the Lord, confident that if God is for us, nothing finally can be against us, and that faith in Him is the true victory that overcomes the world.