I'm great at this everyday thing

Psalms 38 

¹O LORD, rebuke me not in your anger,
   nor discipline me in your wrath!
²For your arrows have sunk into me,
   and your hand has come down on me.

 ³There is no soundness in my flesh
   because of your indignation;
there is no health in my bones
   because of my sin.
⁴For my iniquities have gone over my head;
   like a heavy burden, they are too heavy for me.

 ⁵My wounds stink and fester
   because of my foolishness,
⁶I am utterly bowed down and prostrate;
   all the day I go about mourning.
⁷For my sides are filled with burning,
   and there is no soundness in my flesh.
⁸I am feeble and crushed;
   I groan because of the tumult of my heart.

 ⁹O Lord, all my longing is before you;
   my sighing is not hidden from you.
¹⁰My heart throbs; my strength fails me,
   and the light of my eyes—it also has gone from me.
¹¹My friends and companions stand aloof from my plague,
   and my nearest kin stand far off.

 ¹²Those who seek my life lay their snares;
   those who seek my hurt speak of ruin
   and meditate treachery all day long.

 ¹³But I am like a deaf man; I do not hear,
   like a mute man who does not open his mouth.
¹⁴I have become like a man who does not hear,
   and in whose mouth are no rebukes.

 ¹⁵But for you, O LORD, do I wait;
   it is you, O Lord my God, who will answer.
¹⁶For I said, "Only let them not rejoice over me,
   who boast against me when my foot slips!"

 ¹⁷For I am ready to fall,
   and my pain is ever before me.
¹⁸I confess my iniquity;
   I am sorry for my sin.
¹⁹But my foes are vigorous, they are mighty,
   and many are those who hate me wrongfully.
²⁰Those who render me evil for good
    accuse me because I follow after good.

 ²¹Do not forsake me, O LORD!
   O my God, be not far from me!
²² Make haste to help me,
   O Lord, my salvation!

"There is no soundness in our flesh"  Our flesh is easily broken, it is our enemy, and can destroy us.  We should wait for the Lord, and trust in Him.  Trust and pray that he will heal us, and save us from our earthly selves.  Alone we are unstable, broken, and evil.  He fulfills us and saves us from the evil that is our human nature

This is something that is so hard for me because I have this need to be absolutely perfect all the time.  I feel like I have to do things perfectly the first time.  When I screw up I get hugely bent out of shape.  Sin isn't good, but its a part of my nature.  I know God is here to rescue me from my sin.  I need to start relying on my nature to be good, and begin to trust God to change me, and make my nature further from my own, and closer to His.