Crossed I's and Dotted T's

 I've often struggled to be able to sit down and just write anything on my blog. I also don't often reread a book unless it was a well written book and I enjoyed it greatly. My small group recently started doing out ladies bible study on the book Gentle and Lowly: The Heart of Christ for Sinners and Sufferers by Dane C. Ortlund. It's a book I've read before but because it is a good book and I've been more than willing to read it again. I'm not writing this to give Dane Ortlund a glowing review even though it is a great book to read and would recommend for anyone to read it. I write to draw out a message that has been emphasized to me as of late, I can still come to Jesus with my messy parts and even the messy parts of my story are redeemable. 

I'll be honest I am the type of person who likes the nice neat little box with a bow on top. No imperfections, no messiness, no falling short of anything, but my life has been anything but this. Messiness and falling short are all apart of living in a fallen world. So where do we go from here?

The world is broken, our lives our messy, then what is the solution? To what do we look to, or to whom do we look upon?

Hebrews is one of my favorite books of bible, it emphasizes how Christ is the perfect and better prophet, priest, and king. But it also holds a favorite verse of mine, Hebrews 12:2 that has been a constant reminder to my walk with the Lord,  "Looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God."

We can look to Jesus because of his finished work on the cross. As much as I strive to do all the things with a bow on top, I cannot, because we simply live in a fallen broken world. But that is why we can look to Jesus. He is the author and perfecter of our faith (Heb 12:1). He sympathizes with us in our weaknesses and his power is made perfect in our weakness (Heb 4:15-16, 2 Corith 12:9). 

I realize in the broken world that we live in, I can rest in Christ with my weaknesses, sin struggles and imperfections. Why? Because of the finished work of Christ. I can rest in His grace and mercy for me in my weaknesses. Regardless if our i's are dotted or if our t's are crossed, we can find rest in that Jesus meets us where we are at in our walk with him.