Continuous improvement is one of those methods of getting more out of yourself change one small thing a day and by the end of the year there will have been a massive improvement. But do we need to change, are we not Ok the way we are? Shock, horror; you can't say that! There is nothing wrong with wanting to be better but there is everything wrong with not being satisfied with the way we are, swayed by the media or peer pressure into being discontented about yourself when there is not a lot wrong in the first place.
A.W. Tozer put it like this: "Apart from sin, we have nothing to be ashamed of"
The cult of change has got a hold of the world, faster better, thinner, cleverer, richer, newer, the latest thing. Yesterday's improvements swell the landfill and noone is any happier.
Look at the Church. The Bride of Christ, the Apple of God's eye, the Zenith of his creation. Is it perfect? No you say, it is being perfected, perfection is in the future. Is it? How then does God find ways to move through this shambles? If the Church is an engine has God got all the pieces laid out on the ground before him scratching his head about how to fix it, or is it together, chugging away, going places making a difference? Of course it is. That component going round and round, limited, one dimensional is never going to go up and down but hey, here is another limited component that does just that. Good eh? The Church is working, maybe it is leaking a bit of oil, maybe it is a bit cranky (you'd better believe it!) but it keeps on keeping on. Let's not tear it apart. God knows
He loves it, so do I warts and all. Some of those warts are mine.
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