Jan 20 – Completely Perfect!

“Therefore, you shall be perfect, just as your Father in heaven is perfect” (Mathew 5:48)

It is the will and intent of God that you should attain perfection by following His character and personality. That is why He commands us: “You shall therefore be holy, for I am holy” (Leviticus 11:45). “God is faithful, by whom you were called into the fellowship of His Son, Jesus Christ our Lord” (1 Corinthians 1:9). Our God’s desire for truthfulness is also revealed in the following verse: “Behold, You desire truth in the inward parts, And in the hidden part You will make me to know wisdom” (Psalm 51:6). He would also like us to be completely, absolutely perfect just as He is. Being completely perfect is something that is within your reach, because the Lord will never compel or expect anything that is beyond your reach.

As an example, let us consider that you have a little son, aged three years. He may at best be able to eat three idlies. When such is the case, would you ever compel and force him to eat thirty idlies? Not even a wicked father would do that. In a similar manner, our loving heavenly Father would never force you to do something that you can never accomplish. Therefore, believe with all your heart that you can accomplish complete perfection, that the Lord expects of you.

Our Lord is keen that you achieve complete perfection in His own image. In the garden of Eden, the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground and wanted to give His perfect image to man. That is why He gave His own image and appearance unto man, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being.

If you give a carpenter a few pieces of wood, and ask him to make a table out of them, he will first plan a table in his mind, and then go ahead and physically create the table according to what he has in his mind. The table (perfection) which was in his mind, is turned into a beautiful table (completion) through the talent and craft of the carpenter. Our Lord, wanted to make you – who were dead in your sins and iniquities, complete and perfect. In His faith, He envisioned you as completely perfect, in His own image.

That is why He is leading you in the path of perfection through His blood, His word and the Holy Spirit. Children of God, be encouraged today that all your trials, weaknesses and failures will soon pass away. God is looking at you not as a picture of defeat, but as glorious in victory. Therefore, take heart and progress in your holiness and toward complete perfection!

Verse for further meditation: “till we all come to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a perfect man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ” (Ephesians 4:13)