To aspire to perfection is to curse oneself to eternal frustration. Have you ever felt that feeling that no matter how much you do, it’s never enough? Did you ever try to please an unpleasable person?  No matter what you do or how you do it, you can never reach their standards. Or how about those people, who are so insecure that no matter how much you show you love them, they will never believe you. Or are you simply that person who sets for yourself unattainable standards, sets the bar higher than humanly possible, only to fail again and again in the process of trying to reach it?

When you work toward an unattainable goal, you will always be left with a frustrating feeling of despair and insufficiency.

This is what it means also to cultivate a “works-based” faith. A faith based on works…