Monday, November 3, 2008

Perfection Is Not Perfect

It is important to understand that humans aren’t perfect and that not even god can expect them to be perfect because he will be disappointed. After all that he had gone through Job was finally starting to lose faith and this angered god "Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge?" (Job 38) It was not reasonable for god to have put so much on Job and expect him not to change and when he did change he felt great disgust. Sometimes when I entrust people to do certain things I get angry because they didn’t do it how I expected them to do it. I believe that I could have done it better and I stop trusting the person. This is wrong because something that I have learned from the bible is that nothing is perfect and if I expect it to be I am only losing hope myself. After reading what the lord should have done “the Lord made him prosperous again and gave him twice as much as he had before.”(Job 42) I realized that what I should have done was thank the person for helping me and instead explained how to do it next time. By reading this we not only realize that there is no such thing as human perfection but that there is no such thing as perfection. God himself is nothing close to perfect and he has taught us that perfection is not good. It will only bring us despair and make us unhappy and if people have strengths and weaknesses it will make the world a better and more interesting place.

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