STRIVING FOR PERFECTION
Around the Year with Emmet Fox
April 24
What of the man who is conscious
of considerable moral imperfection,
perhaps of the habit of grave sin,
and is at the same time
sincerely desirous of spiritual growth?
Is he to relinquish the quest for spiritual knowledge
until he has first reformed his conduct?
By no means.
As a matter of fact,
any attempt to improve himself morally
without spiritual aid is foredoomed to failure.
The thing to do is to pray regularly
and to throw the responsibility for success upon God.
The man must carry on,
no matter how many times he may fail.
Let him keep affirming that God is helping him,
and that his own real nature is spiritual and perfect.
In this way moral regeneration and spiritual unfoldment
will go hand in hand.
The Christian life does not require
that we possess perfection of character,
or else, which of us would be able to live it?
What it does require is
honest, genuine striving for that perfection.
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