This week I have been writing progress reports looking at targets and forecasts and finding ways to help pupils reach their target and achieve their potential. In turn we too are observed to see if we are reaching our targets and where we also might need help to close the gap.
Its perfectly normal in our working lives and research shows it works, but sometimes we can feel as if we never make out target.
I think as adults we often give ourselves targets in what we are trying to achieve, in who we are and in who we want to be, and I think we can also do it in our faith. We try to be good but it is so hard and much of the time we are left feeling as if we have failed. Sometimes so much that we cannot bear to come to church and be in God's presence.
Yet that is not how God sees it.
The prodigal son behaved badly, he spent his inheritance, did all the things he shouldn't yet still we read possibly the most beautiful words in the bible
"But while he was still a long way off, his father saw him and was filled with compassion for him; he ran to his son, threw his arms around him and kissed him." Luke 10 vs 15
While he was still a long way off..
Then there is Peter, who tried so hard. Who swore he would defend Jesus to his dying breath and yet, as predicted, let him down. And Jesus' response? He reached out to him, forgave him and used him as the very foundation of the church.
Its perfectly normal in our working lives and research shows it works, but sometimes we can feel as if we never make out target.
I think as adults we often give ourselves targets in what we are trying to achieve, in who we are and in who we want to be, and I think we can also do it in our faith. We try to be good but it is so hard and much of the time we are left feeling as if we have failed. Sometimes so much that we cannot bear to come to church and be in God's presence.
Yet that is not how God sees it.
The prodigal son behaved badly, he spent his inheritance, did all the things he shouldn't yet still we read possibly the most beautiful words in the bible
"But while he was still a long way off, his father saw him and was filled with compassion for him; he ran to his son, threw his arms around him and kissed him." Luke 10 vs 15
While he was still a long way off..
Then there is Peter, who tried so hard. Who swore he would defend Jesus to his dying breath and yet, as predicted, let him down. And Jesus' response? He reached out to him, forgave him and used him as the very foundation of the church.
While he was still a long way off.....
At Philip Tarris' s Licensing this week, Bishop Roger reminded us that we are just bog standard human beings so we will get it wrong, we will not do everything we are meant to do but we are still much loved.
However this world measures us, God sees it differently, he loves us for who we are, for what we are - without condition.
Jesus has already closed the gap.
"But while he was still a long way off, his father saw him and was filled with compassion for him; he ran to his son, threw his arms around him and kissed him." Luke 10 vs 15
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