Perfect Like Christ | Audio Reading | Our Daily Bread Devotional | January 29, 2022
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🗓️ 29 January 2022
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| 0:00.0 | Hi friends and welcome to this daily encouragement from our daily bread. |
| 0:10.9 | Our reading titled Perfect Like Christ was written by Monica LaRose. |
| 0:17.1 | Perfectionism is one of the scariest words I know. |
| 0:20.5 | Kathleen Norris writes, thoughtfully contrasting modern-day perfectionism with the perfection |
| 0:26.2 | described in the book of Matthew. |
| 0:29.4 | Modern-day perfectionism, she describes as a serious psychological affliction that makes |
| 0:35.0 | people too timid to take necessary risks, but the word translated |
| 0:40.0 | perfect in Matthew actually means mature, complete, or whole. Norris concludes to be perfect |
| 0:49.9 | is to make room for growth and become mature enough to give ourselves to others. |
| 0:57.4 | Understanding perfection this way helps make sense of the profound story told in Matthew 19, |
| 1:04.3 | where a man asked Jesus what good he could do to get eternal life. |
| 1:09.7 | Jesus responded, keep the commandments. The man thought |
| 1:14.0 | he'd obeyed all of them, yet he knew something was missing. What do I still lack? He asked. |
| 1:21.2 | That's when Jesus identified the man's wealth as the vice grip stifling his heart. He said that if he wanted to be perfect, whole, |
| 1:30.9 | willing to give and receive from others in God's kingdom, then he must be willing to let go of what |
| 1:37.0 | was closing off his heart from others. Each of us has our own version of perfection, possessions, or habits we cling to as a futile attempt to be in control. |
| 1:50.2 | Today, hear Jesus' gentle invitation to surrender and find freedom in the wholeness that's only possible in him. |
| 2:09.4 | Today's Our Daily Bread Devotional Scripture reading is from Matthew Chapter 19, verses 16 through 26. |
| 2:13.7 | Just then a man came up to Jesus and asked, |
| 2:17.1 | Teacher, what good thing must I do to get eternal life?' |
| 2:20.9 | "'Why do you ask me about what is good?' Jesus replied. |
| 2:25.0 | "'There is only one who is good. |
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