Pebbles of Grace

We live in a society where there is a high expectation on people that we look up to, thinking and taking them to be someone who should be faultless: just perfect.

The pressure is more for those actively involved in church ministries, social works and public leaders and therefore,  many a times we put on mask, a façade of perfection: a perfect relation, a perfect leader and one  having it all packed together a life of no flaws.

Yet underneath it all, we might be walking around all broken in soul and spirit, burdened with our failures and struggles and ashamed to show it to the world.

I believe it is fine to not be perfect; it is only when we admit our brokenness, our faults and our frailties, that we not only heal, but give courage to others to heal as well.

The pebbles we might have in our shoe right now—may be strained relationships, financial hardship, sickness, exhaustion, anxiety, death of a loved one.

Pebbles hurt especially when we have to wear it for a very long walk but in the meantime, let’s allow these little stones to be a means of grace in our lives—reminding us of our brokenness, humbling us in our need, training us in godliness, and causing us to look to Jesus. His grace is sufficient.

 And sometimes, it comes in the form of a pebble in our shoe.

No family is perfect, no marriage is, and no one is without an issue or problem to work on: that is us …all of us in the inside. We are all imperfect people but loved perfectly loved by a perfect God.

Christ knows the race. He ran it with pebbles in his shoes, and he finished it with a crown of thorns upon his head.

 Today, he wears the victory crown and sits in a place of honor. He has conquered all and is waiting at the finish line cheering us on as we run towards him.

 

 

 

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