Many think the important thing in life is to look successful and appear as if you never fail. Their desire is to hear others admire them, "how does she do it? She's so amazing!". Essentially they want others to worship them for their great accomplishments.
We get terribly uncomfortable with letting others past our perfectly sculpted secret walls to see the ruins and messy honesty that sometimes lie within. Afraid that others may stop loving us if they saw we weren't so perfect.
Our greatest desire is to be loved. We need it. We were made to be loved. There is only One that can ever fulfill that aching need for love deep inside us though. He created us to be the object of His powerful and persevering love. Our fulfillment comes through letting Him love on it us and in return worshipping and looking up to Him. Admiring Him, not being admired by others. His love will never fail when He sees the mess that lies behind that wall. He is the only one capable of healing that mess in fact. So let Him in and don't worry so much what others will think when they see the true you. Stand on what God already knows and sees and is healing.
When Paul cried out to God to take his weakness away from him, God replied by reminding Paul that His strength is made perfect in weakness.
You see, when we take an good, hard look in the mirror and admit that we're too weak to do it in our own, we free up God's grace to be lavished upon us, abundantly poured over us!
When we step out of ourselves and live in that place of His strength and Grace, that is when we truly learn to trust that He is faithful and that's the place when we will begin to see things not even humanly possible- the stuff that miracles are made of!
I would much rather borrow the abundant Grace of an omnipotent God than try to go at it on my own, with my pathetic human attempts!
In a nutshell, this life is not about saving face, but about Saving Grace.
But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me.
2 Corinthians 12:9
