Perfection

God is everything you want Him to be. This is because He is perfect. He is the friend you wish you had, the friend you wish you could be. He is the boss you wish you had and He is the servant you wish you could be. He is the Perfect Person. Everything that we yearn for and cry out for, we can find in Him.

 

God gives things perfectly. He gives freedom. He gives grace. He gives justice. He gives mercy. He gives generously. He gives kindly. He gives safety and assurance. He gives wisdom and foresight.

 

But here's the catch. He also gives His perfection. In fact, the Perfect Person gives His Perfection perfectly.

 

He wants to make you perfect and deal with you as if you were. He wants to give you the synonym of perfection, which is Righteousness. He wants to grant you that which He has Himself—His own righteousness.

 

He perfects imperfections and makes a success of failure. He deems failures perfect and makes perfect failures.

 

And this is my definition of a Christian: A perfect failure. The Christian is someone who has failed perfectly. But has come to admit that. And in so doing, by the work of Jesus, has been made perfect.

 

All subsequent attempts to either earn or retain this perfection are futile. The perfection of Christ is both unobtainable while similarly being irrevocable. If it was either obtainable or revocable it would—again by definition—cease to be perfect.

 

A dose of imperfect perfection is hardly the tonic the world, and you, require.

 

However, the great message of the faith is that God's perfection is perfect.

 

And in His perfection He has sought to grant you perfection.

 

It is unobtainable by you; yet is alienable by Him.

 

You cannot achieve it. And it is only when that fact cements itself in your mind that God limits Himself to give it away.

 

Your entire life to date has been a struggle against, and a struggle for, perfection. In the Christian gospel, God ameliorates this struggle by conveying on the imperfect His own perfection. He perfects failures. It is so powerful a message that our greatest failure is to resist His offer to make our failures perfect. The message of redemption is so powerful that the true failures of this earth are those who refuse His perfection.

 

Once perfect, you will be free.

 

The Christian in newfound perfection is able to deal with and relate to the Perfect Person freely.

 

It used to be the case that we only had the option of failure. Now, in the Christian gospel, we have the option of either perfection or failure. We are free to make this election; and free to choose freedom.

 

This is what God has got faith for you. He has faith that you would receive His gift of perfection and rest your entire case on it. The sole question that remains is whether you have the faith to receive that which He has faith for.