Never let 'em see you when you're breaking
Never let 'em see you when you fall
That's how we live and that's how we try
Tell the world you've got it all together
Never let them see what's underneath
Cover it up with a crooked smile
But it only lasts for a little while
Never let 'em see you when you fall
That's how we live and that's how we try
Tell the world you've got it all together
Never let them see what's underneath
Cover it up with a crooked smile
But it only lasts for a little while
There's no such thing as perfect people
There's no such thing as a perfect life
So come as you are, broken and scarred
Lift up your heart and be amazed
And be changed by a perfect God
There's no such thing as a perfect life
So come as you are, broken and scarred
Lift up your heart and be amazed
And be changed by a perfect God
This song recorded by Natalie Grant, specifically the above first verse and chorus, has been on my mind a lot the last few weeks. I'm find comfort anew in the old lesson that God loves me as I am. He doesn't love me any less for not being the me I want to be, or the me I think others see, but He again and again lovingly takes my jagged and rough edges and slowly beings the process of sanding them into a beautiful object. I'm never certain whether we long for our own version of perfection because we're falling into the original sin of trying to be like God, or if it's because we serve a perfect God and deep down desire to truly emulate Him. Either way, I like the last three lines of the chorus. The me that I am will be changed be a perfect God, so I don't have to worry about Him messing up. And that is a very cool and refreshing thought indeed.
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