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Once there were these 3 guys who needed to get to a town called Perfection in one day. Perfection was 200 km away. One guy decided to save money and walk all the way. He started off at 6 in the morning. He only walked for a few hours and managed to cover 20 km. After that he was too pooped to carry on so he gave up and didn’t make it. The second guy decided to ride a bicycle. He rode and rode and he had to take constant breaks because he would get so tired. The road wasn’t always flat. Sometimes he had to ride uphill and that was tough. Sometimes he got a free ride downhill. But he still had to expend a lot of effort. After 10 exhausting hours, he finally got there. But it had been a tremendous struggle and it took almost everything out of him. The third guy decided to get someone to drive him there. All he had to do was sit in the car. He got there in only three hours, fresh as a daisy. So, perfection is similar. If you’re trying to aim for perfection by yourself, you’ll never hit it. You’ll give up even before you’re halfway there. You’ll be so tired you’ll collapse from exhaustion. If you only partially depend on God, then you might get there but it’ll be tough and you’ll be totally exhausted. The key to Perfection is to totally depend on God. But you must make the decision to...

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