This message is about that way I found myself--being an early Christian--treating the woman who was leading me to Christ. We fought and we bickered, but, at the end of the day, I love this woman from the bottom of my heart. She told me about this man named Jesus and my life was changed. So, this message is to the other people who are struggling with being teachable. Read these scriptures and meditate on them day and night. Become more teachable to the person who is pouring their life into you, and pour into them as well.
I’m not perfect, I will never be perfect, but you expect me to be. I’m supposed to know when I say something you don’t like and I supposed to wait on you hand and feet. I'm not your slave and I do not live on this earth to worship you. I live on this earth to follow God’s will because I am a child of God. I was made in His image, I live a life that is supposed to reflect Him but he know I make mistakes. He sent his own son Jesus to die on the cross for the sins that I and you commit. I am no longer ashamed but I rejoice in His name.
I may do things that hurt your feelings and I ask for forgiveness and grace to be given. I know that I am not here to please you, but to please Him because in Galatians 1:10, it says, “Am I now trying to win the approval of human beings, or of God? Or am I trying to please people? If I were still trying to please people, I would not be a servant of Christ” (NIV). Once I gave my life over to Christ, I became a servant of Christ--to live in the Spirit and not to be conformed to the pattern of the world.
Our relationship started out rocky and it was hard for me to trust you. I felt like you were trying to make me more like you when you were trying to make me more like Jesus. You wanted me to walk in his glory and wanted people to know that by the way my life was that I was a follower of Christ. Romans 12:2 says, “Do not be conformed by the pattern of this world but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve of what god’s will is--His good pleasing and perfect will” (NIV) You wanted me to read the word of god, meditate on it and speak it into existence. The trust and bond that I have for you know is stronger than ever because you taught me how to become more like Jesus.
I wanted you to be there for me every day and ask me how my day was and I was being selfish. I had to realize that you weren’t Jesus and that I needed to treat you like you were human. I needed to stop and think about the way that I was treating you because it was leading our relationship to the ground. When I thought you were trying to make me perfect—I was treating you like you were messing up because I thought you were perfect. Ecclesiastes 7:20 “Surely there is not a righteous person on earth who always does good and never sins” (ESV). No one will ever be perfect because the only perfect person is God.
