True Christianity: Imperfect People Striving for Perfection

A Christian doesn’t quit

God knows He’s called His people to do some hard things, and He doesn’t expect them to make it through life without picking up some scratches and dings along the way. 

As the apostle Paul was inspired to write, “We are hard-pressed on every side, yet not crushed; we are perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed—always carrying about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our body. … Therefore we do not lose heart. Even though our outward man is perishing, yet the inward man is being renewed day by day” (2 Corinthians 4:8-10, 16).

In this life, we’re going to get pummeled. We’re going to fail and make mistakes and fall short of God’s perfect standards, again and again and again. But a true Christian refuses to let the story end there. A true Christian knows that “a righteous man may fall seven times and rise again” (Proverbs 24:16, emphasis added).