For the Law never made anything perfect—but instead a better hope is introduced through which we [now] come close to God. Hebrews 7:19
Look at what our Father teaches us here; the hope that brings perfection also draws us nigh to Him. The more that we are empowered to realize that we are perfect, fully equipped, mature, or whatever other term we may use, the more we will draw nigh to our Father. My kids and I are close, but when they were infants, babies, the relationship was basically one sided, Beth and I served them, they loved us and we loved them, but as they have grown we have even become closer. They now know and understand me and I know them. I am still their dad, yet we are also friends, and as each day goes by, we become closer and closer. The same is true with God, as we grow, we grow close to Him. It’s not that we become perfect, no, we are already perfect by Christ, we can’t help it, our Father birthed us into perfection on the day of our salvation. But we do grow to understand our perfection. Now just as with Kennedy and Lauren this understanding is not one sided, totally dependent upon them, Beth and I have raised them, taught them, showed them, directed them, and the same is true with our Father. The only way that we can understand our perfection in Christ is by God being intimately involved in the learning process! Our Father will never leave us or forsake us and He has allowed us to become one with the Holy Spirit to teach us all things!
The wisdom of man states that our perfection comes to us by our works, our actions. If we mess up than obviously we are not perfect, but if we don’t mess up then we are perfect. Praise God we don’t have to deal in the wisdom of man, we are allowed to deal in God’s wisdom and God say’s we are perfect by Jesus and only by Him. This is foolishness to most, but not to those who have been empowered to understand the Truth. There is no work that we could ever do that would make us perfect. Yet, we have received a freedom that passes all understanding, we are perfect just because the One Who created it all gave it to us. The price wasn’t free, Jesus paid dearly, yet for you and I who are saved, it’s just freely obtained. Through the power of Christ we just accept it. Perfection is a Stumbling Stone to everyone except those who have been empowered with the Holy Spirit to look to the Light and who have stepped out of darkness.
For if because of one man's trespass (lapse, offense) death reigned through that one, much more surely will those who receive [God's] overflowing grace (unmerited favor) and the free gift of righteousness [putting them into right standing with Himself] reign as kings in life through the one Man Jesus Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed One). Romans 5:17
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