God expects us to do what we can

But we have this treasure in jars of clay, to show that the surpassing power belongs to God and not to us. (2 Corinthians 4:7 ESV)

 What can you realistically expect to be or accomplish? That depends in part on how you define “realistic.” Nobody knows what we’re capable of better than God, and often His definition of “realistic” is “potential.”
 He knows our limits, “He knows our frame; He remembers that we are dust” but He also sees our hearts and continually looks at us from the viewpoint of what we can become.
 God expects us to do what we can, but He doesn’t expect us to be perfect. He knows we’ll never be perfect, and if we’re smart we’ll realize that it’s foolish for us to try or pretend to be. We have to do our part, but our part isn’t to be perfect—and that’s the beauty of God’s plan!
 If we remember that we’re weak and imperfect, His Spirit can work in and through us, His strength is made perfect in our weakness.
 With God nothing is impossible, and He knows that no matter what has happened before or what our current weaknesses or lacks may be, we can change; He can work in and through our circumstances. We must learn to see ourselves through the eyes of faith, through the perspective of what we can become, what God’s transformative power can do in us, what Jesus can be in us. —Peter Amsterdam [1]

 This world is God’s workshop for making men in.—Henry Ward Beecher (1813–1887)

[1] Activated Got Potential?