PERFECT
"Be perfect, therefore, as your Heavenly Father is perfect." Matthew 5:48 Dictionary.com defines perfect as: ' conforming absolutely to the description or definition of an ideal type; faultless, flawless' So, to be perfect as our Heavenly Father is perfect is to conform absolutely to how God is perfect. If we honestly ask ourselves, am I doing that? What will the answer be? Some may say, "Well, no one is perfect...that's why Jesus came and died for us." Why then, did He tell us to be perfect, even as God is perfect? I think that what this means is that yes, Jesus came and died for us, while we were yet sinners. We could not save ourselves. But He, the sinless, spotless lamb, was without sin and was the perfect sacrifice for us...wholly acceptable to our perfect Father God. To accept Jesus is to accept what He did and the price He paid for us. We were washed clean of our sins. But sometimes we may continue to sin and have trouble with certain things in ou