Through Faith In Christ We May Be Perfect

 What an astonishing command: "Be perfect, as your Heavenly Father is perfect." On the surface it seems like an impossible, unreasonable, even thoughtless request, because God knows that we are a sinful race with a fallen nature, and that there is no way that we could ever obey this command.
 We cannot imitate Christ's righteousness, nor can we be perfect by striving to reach righteousness by resolutions, by means of self-help skills, or strictly training ourselves to be morally principled. There is no way that we can become perfect by ourselves, even with the combined help of all the people in the world. The only way that we can be perfect, this side of heaven, is to be conformed into the image and likeness of Christ, by having His righteousness imputed to us, credited to us, and ascribed to us, through the power of the Holy Spirit and to the glory of the Father.
 Should we not rejoice that God has not only commanded us to be perfect as He is perfect, but in His love and grace He foreordained that Through Faith In Christ We May Be Perfect, entire, and lacking nothing, simply by an act of saving faith and an obedient life of sanctifying faith, trusting Him to finish the good work he started in us - in Christ.
Matthew 5:48 Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect.

Our United Prayer:
Heavenly Father, we long to be more like You and to finish the work that You have prepared for us. Please perfect Your life in us in all we say and do, to Your praise and glory. In Jesus' name we Pray, AMEN.