The word for today is - Perfect !

Good morning,

The word for today is -  Perfect !

 

God is perfect , and His Word is perfect James 1:25,But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed. Mankind, apart from Christ, is everything but ,Romans 3:23-26,For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God.Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus.Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God;To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus.Yet the call for all people is given in Matthew 5:48 in which Jesus says,Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.Only when we see that there is only One Who is perfect and just to expect perfection from us as well will the gospel make sense. God, being perfectly holy, cannot accept anything or anybody less than perfectly holy. He alone is complete, whereas we are incomplete and insufficient of ourselves. Perfection alone belongs to God, but the story doesn’t end there. God sent His Son Jesus Christ to die as a perfect sacrifice for sin. He lived a holy and sinless life and died in our place, paying the penalty for the death that we should have had to face. Yet we can be free and clean because Jesus took our penalty for sin upon Himself.There is a reason that God includes these stories in the Bible. He wants us to see that, though we are called to be holy and to pursue Christlike character in all things, inevitably we will come up short. Those who struggle with perfectionism fail to understand God’s grace and the nature of His unconditional love.Father we thank you for your love for us.Thank you for your word. Amen !

 

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