"Because sin entered the world, there is emotional distress and disappointment with other people and with ourselves too.
We set expectations for what our lives should look like and then stress out when we aren’t as successful as we think we should be, or our bodies don’t look as good as we want them to, or we still struggle with bad habits or addictions that we know we should have overcome by now.
Now that doesn’t mean we should stop striving for Christlikeness; it just means we need to adjust our expectations.
This world we live in is not heaven.
It is not perfect, and it never will be.
We are not perfect, and we never will be while we’re alive on this earth.
We set expectations for what our lives should look like and then stress out when we aren’t as successful as we think we should be, or our bodies don’t look as good as we want them to, or we still struggle with bad habits or addictions that we know we should have overcome by now.
Now that doesn’t mean we should stop striving for Christlikeness; it just means we need to adjust our expectations.
This world we live in is not heaven.
It is not perfect, and it never will be.
We are not perfect, and we never will be while we’re alive on this earth.
So give yourself and everyone around you a break, and remember to thank God for his grace in this broken world."
- Rick Warren in "The Daily Hope: The Emotional Costs of Sin"
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