Strength in weakness

Just a few minutes ago I saw a friend of mine's status on facebook...

"I thank God for my lack of perfection, room for improvement = increase in humility"

Recently I've been struggling with the knowledge that I have so far to go in my life. There's always more of the bible to read, let alone other books! More to pray about. More sermons to listen to. More love to give. And I get so much wrong. It's really easy to beat myself up about it all!

I need to breath in and think about what my friend put so well, "room for improvement = increase in humility"

It's interesting how the devil distorts that and changes it from a positive thing to a negative and destructive thing..."room for improvement = you're a failure, a screw up, and you'll never get anything right"

Maybe I need to stop beating myself up about my failures and instead remember what God said to Paul, 'My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness'.

Anyone else need a bit of that?!