To all of you dads out there ... "Happy Father's Day!" Billy Graham once said, "A good father is one of the most unsung, unpraised, unnoticed, and yet one of the most valuable assets in our society."

The perfect is the enemy of good.

Putting Aside the Weight of Perfectionism!

Because JESUS perfectly lived, died, and rose again for us, HE has already purchased our perfection.

Remember there were no perfect people in the Bible ... except for the Godhead.

-Abraham, the great model of faith, has his Hagar episode.

-Moses, the great Christlike prophet, has his disqualifying rock incident

-Then there is Aaron, the great Christlike high priest, has his golden calf disaster.

-David, the great Christlike king, has his Bathsheba and Uriah event.

-Peter, the great apostle and CHRIST-confessor, trips over his clay feet throughout the Gospels and beyond. You have him being confronted by Paul in Galatians 2

-And Acts and the Epistles give us a warts-and-all view into the imperfect lives of the earliest Christians.

Pursue love.

Trust HIM

-You can’t expect to be perfect … it is a fight you’ve got to forfeit.

Chase after excellence.

Teddy Roosevelt believed, “Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.”

Be the one who pursues love, trusting in HIM with all your heart and chasing after excellence.