Perfection

How often do we hear the phrase "be perfect as your heavenly Father is perfect"?
I know I hear it all the time! But how often do we really look at what that means? What are we being told in this verse?

Last night, I went to One Gospel, which is like a youth group for college kids. It was pretty cool. The topic was being sons and daughters of God. Which, I chose to go because right now I want to learn what being a daughter of God means in my life. I know that I am a daughter of God, but what does that mean? How does it apply to my life? So, I went and we do some praise and worship and during praise and worship I asked God, 'Okay, what does this mean in my life?' And he didn't give me the answer I was expecting. I was expecting like a definition of sorts; but rather, God just told me you try too hard to be perfect. You are too hard on yourself. You don't give yourself a break when you fail.

When we fail, when we fall, that's when we need Jesus most. "Be perfect as your heavenly Father is perfect." When we fall, when we fail, Jesus comes. In our imperfections, Jesus is with us most. When we fall he picks us up, and he picks up our slack. In our human imperfection, we fail - that's a given fact, but Jesus makes up for it. Jesus fulfills and satisfies our every need. He takes all our imperfections and looks past them. He sees us as we will one day be, in heaven, and He wants to help us get there - so he lifts us up when we fall. We just have to be willing to get up and to let him help us get up.

So, be perfect as your heavenly Father is perfect - by letting him take your imperfections, by letting him be with you and help you in your imperfection. We are called to be perfect, but we can only be perfect if we let the heavenly Father consume us and make us perfect.

God bless!
Keep praying!

In Jesus&Mary,
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