I think I have posted before about my battle with perfection and I've even preached sermons and lifegroup lessons on this. And the reason I keep coming back to this topic is that it's a never ending battle for me. I'll do pretty well for a bit, but it's one of those things that is deeply rooted in me and I will always have to fight the battle.
It's always a cool learning point with God though. He never fails to teach me things when He is teaching me about my imperfections and false idea that I need to be perfect. There is a song out on the radio right now that I think is super cool and hits the nail on the head about the whole battle with perfection. I'll post the lyrics below and my favorite line is in the chorus where the girls says that "perfection is my enemy."
Read these lyrics and you can youtube the song and check it out. I think it's pretty powerful!
Free to Be Me by Francesca Battistelli
At twenty years of age I'm still looking for a dream
A war's already waged for my destiny
But You've already won the battle
And You've got great plans for me
Though I can't always see
Cause I got a couple dents in my fender
Got a couple rips in my jeans
Try to fit the pieces together
But perfection is my enemy
On my own I'm so clumsy
But on Your shoulders I can see
I'm free to be me
When I was just a girl I thought I had it figured out
See my life would turn out right, and I'd make it here somehow
But things don't always come that easy
And sometimes I would doubt, oh...
Cause I got a couple dents in my fender
Got a couple rips in my jeans
Try to fit the pieces together
But perfection is my enemy
On my own I'm so clumsy
But on Your shoulders I can see
I'm free to be me
And you're free to be you
Sometimes I believe that I can do anything
Yet other times I think I've got nothing good to bring
But You look at my heart and You tell me
That I've got all You seek, oh
And it's easy to believe
Even though
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