God's in the business of changing lives!

As I look back on my life, I see a girl who was so consumed by what others thought of her. I thought as a Christian my goal is life was to be as perfect as I could be. It caused me to look down at others and judge them. It also caused me to fall completely apart whenever I did mess up.
As I reread the genealogy of Christ in Matthew 1, I saw not only Rahab, who was a prostitute, but many other messed up people. I saw King David, a murderer and an adulterer. I saw Abraham who didn't trust God enough to fulfill his promise so he decided to try to make the promise of a child happen his own way. I also saw Judah who broke a promise to his daughter-in-law, she then dressed like a prostitute and slept with Judah to produce the twins that would be in the genealogy of Christ. There were alot of messed up people in Christ's genealogy. In Matthew 2:6 I also saw how God had promised that Jesus would be born in the city of Judah. So God did not choose the most "perfect" people to be in his genealogy, he chose the most messed up people He could work through. It hit me that God's more interested in redeeming lives and changing people than he is about us looking "perfect" and being "perfect". The "perfect" people don't need him. Only the ones who know how messed up they are see their need for a Savior.
It was cool how a chapter that usually puts me to sleep with all the names I can't pronounce suddenly is a huge story of God's redemption and grace. I know I will probably struggle with caring too much about what people think of me for the rest of my life but I feel like I'm finally getting the point that I'm not here to be the "perfect" Christian but to love others and pour into them. The more I focus on pouring into others the more I want to do the right thing not for my glory but for the Lord's. It's not about being "perfect" but about showing others God's love.