God is perfection. Trust Him to produce it.

Every now and then I watch a reel of a person removing someone’s completely overgrown vegetation free of charge. Like this picture, you know something is there. You just can’t see or enjoy it.

Once the work began on removing the weeds and mowing the lawns, however, a porch that didn’t “exist” all of a sudden comes into view. Sidewalks, which were not there, can now be walked upon. This transformation quite literally takes place right before your very eyes.

I recently said to Jesus, “Lord, I know what You are asking. Yet, all my life I’ve made choices a certain way. And now You want me to choose differently? Seriously, I can’t see it.”

Jesus’ men literally saw perfection staring them in the face and didn’t see it either! Why? They only knew what they knew at the moment; and, a perfect man was not something they knew.

We only know what we know. So, are we seeing flowers/perfection or weeds? Weeds must come out to enjoy the roses. The Spirit will show us the weed thoughts (lies) that need to be replaced with the rose thoughts (truths).

Yet, we still have no idea what perfection actually looks like. I know, Jesus. But I’ve never actually seen Him in the flesh making the choices He is asking me to make.

This is when faith steps in. When we can’t picture what the choice He is asking us to make looks like, but have the truth the Spirit gave us, we must choose to act on the truth. And then we’ll see Him clear the path to enjoy all the wonderful walkways and porches He made.

Simple? Yes. Hard? Yes. Will it work? In this I have put my hope (Titus 2:13).