PERFECTION

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erfection is the worth of something that is as good or appropriate as it can possibly be.  To be perfect means to be great, wonderful, faultless, right or flawless.  It also means to be complete and lacking nothing essential.  Perfection implies having all the necessary characteristics required for a given situation.  When you talk of perfection, you need to see some gifted men do things they know how to do better than others around them.  This is so because they have practiced and invested time and resources.  A perfect person is someone who is very proficient and skilled in a particular area.  This proofs the saying that “practice makes perfect.”  Look around and recall some talented individuals how they do what they do better than others.  What about yourself; what is your own special talent of what can you do better than other people around you.  I have my own and I give all the glory to GOD.

Man can be perfect.  Yes, as long as he lives according to GOD’s commandments.  With GOD all things are possible.  To become perfect or to make something perfect takes time and process.  It is not a day’s job.  It requires one to go by the principles and technique.  To be perfect, you need to have faith which is at least as big as a mustard seed.  Jesus’ perfection was not a day’s job. He had to be sent from heaven to come and live in the world as an example for man to follow.  Jesus even declared that His followers would do greater works than He did.  Some of the perfect men who lived according to GOD’s command ware Abraham and Noah, for they were just and perfect men because they walked with God.  Job was also a man that was perfect and upright.  He feared GOD and shunned evil.

All those things that you think you cannot perfect are very possible to be perfect.  Some are not perfect because they are against GOD’s wish or it would bring discomfort to you or your neighbours.  Some things that might also disrupt your perfection are non-contentment, greed, wickedness, spirit of condemnation or opposition.  Just as GOD instructed Abraham, HE is instructing you now to walk before HIM and be perfect.  To be perfect, you have to avoid all heathen practices as GOD has instructed.  Also, to attain perfection, Jesus instructs that you go and sell all that you have, and give to the poor, and you shall have treasure in heaven.  You should be just and righteous in all that you do every where you may find yourself alone or not; at home, in your workplace or business, school, church; anywhere at all. Avoid all forms of cheat and falsehood.  Man is made perfect by the Spirit, not flesh.  Anyone who does not meet this requirement is an abomination unto the LORD God. 

If you make GOD your strength and power, HE will unfailingly make your way perfect.  Serve GOD with a perfect heart and with a willing mind, for HE searches all hearts and understands all the imaginations of the thoughts.  If you renounce HIM, HE will cast you off for ever. 

Bible References: 

Genesis 6:9; 17:1

Deuteronomy 18:13; 25:15-16;

2 Samuel 22:33

1 Chronicles 28:9

Job 1:1, 8

Matthew 5:48; 17:20; 19:21

Mark 9:23

John 14:12

Galatians 3:3

Prayer Points: 

·        Glorify the LORD God for the grace for man to be perfect.

·        Pray for God to wipe out every element of imperfection in your life.

·        Pray that you have greater faith in God to HIS satisfactory standard.

·        Thank God for HIS .

QUOTABLE QUOTES

Do not wish to appear the best but be it.

Dada DOS

There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear:

because fear has torment. He that fears is not made perfect in love.

I John 4:18

The intellect of man is forced to choose
Perfection of the life, or of the work.

W. B. Yeats (1865 - 1939)

There's only one real sin, and that is to persuade oneself

that the second-best is anything but the second-best.

Doris Lessing (1919 - )

Man, when perfected, is the best of animals,

but, when separated from law and justice,

he is the worst of all.

Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)

You would attain to the divine perfection,
And yet not turn your back upon the world.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 - 1882)