has to<\/em><\/strong> be perfect\u2026If He wasn\u2019t, how could I trust that He wouldn\u2019t become impatient, frustrated, angry, etc\u2026 If there was even a hint of possibility that He would not be perfect, I would constantly be waiting for the other shoe to drop.\u00a0 I would always have it in the back of my mind that if I did something \u201cwrong\u201d, He would snap. \u00a0If He waivered one millimeter, I would have to be guarded in the way that I interact with Him.<\/p>\nWe filter how we expect Him to react and respond through the lens of our life and experiences.\u00a0 We expect Him to respond like our father when he was disappointed with us.\u00a0 Or react with the impatience of our mom when we were moving too slowly and she was in a hurry.\u00a0 Or like our employer who judges and rewards based on our performance.<\/p>\n
But Jesus is perfect in all His ways.\u00a0 He is NEVER triggered.\u00a0 He never flinches.\u00a0 He is never surprised.\u00a0 When we begin to see Him for who He really is, and experience His true nature, we learn to develop trust that He will not get upset with us.\u00a0 He knows us perfectly!\u00a0 How could anything we do take Him by surprise?<\/p>\n
But it takes dedicated time with Him letting Jesus be Jesus.\u00a0 It takes moment by moment intimate encounters with Him to develop our capacity.\u00a0 And as that trust grows, we can let Him into those places that hurt so that we can get to deeper levels of relationship with Him.<\/p>\n
In order for that to really take place, I need to KNOW (from experiencing His perfectness) that He is perfect in all of His ways.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Why Jesus Has To Be Perfect In All Of His Ways There is a lyric in the great song \u201cGood Good Father\u201d written by Pat Barrett and Tony Brown of Housefires, and made famous by Chris Tomlin.\u00a0 It says, \u201cYou are perfect in all of Your ways\u201d.\u00a0 Here is the video: https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=djrY_eFDOwE During a recent […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[27,29,23,13,16,14,31,26,20,19,24,15],"class_list":["post-1127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-immanuel-approach-blog-posts","tag-emotional-healing","tag-healing","tag-immanuel","tag-immanuel-approach","tag-immanuel-practicum","tag-immanuel-prayer","tag-immanuel-session","tag-inner-healing","tag-intimacy","tag-jesus","tag-pastor-patti-velotta","tag-patti-velotta"],"yoast_head":"\n
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