Thursday, September 20, 2001
Thursday, September 20, 2001
But those who look into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and persevere,
being not
hearers who forget but doers who act they will be blessed in their doing.
Abraham Lincoln's line makes us all feel better: "The (person) who is incapable of
making a
mistake is incapable of anything."
What a relief it is to know that God does not expect perfection, since we are made
perfect
through Jesus Christ.
(James 1:25
NRSV)
At the beginning of the Spanish siege of Gibraltar, which lasted from 1779 to 1783, the
Queen of
Spain sat on a hill facing Gibraltar and, believing that the siege would be a short one,
declared that
she would not move until she had seen the Spanish flag flying above Gibraltar. As the
days passed
and there were no signs that the fortress would fall, her vow came to be highly
embarrassing.
Eventually, the British commander took pity on her and gallantly waved the Spanish
flag for a
couple of minutes so that the Queen could move without losing face. We've all been
there. Even
royalty sometimes looks foolish. Indeed no one looks more foolish than a proud person
trying to
hide a boo-boo.
Dear God, perfection is a gift in Jesus Christ. May I use your gift to patiently reach out
to others.
Amen.
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